Basketball Quote by Kenny Smith

When I was 7, my dad asked his friend to teach me. I played my first tournament competition when I was 8. I remember…

— Yani Tseng

I've been playing basketball since I was five.

— C. J. McCollum

I first started out by hitting a ball against a wall when I was four.

— Evonne Goolagong Cawley

I started playing basketball at such a late age.

— Tristan Thompson

I started playing basketball when I was about three years old. After that, everything else just came naturally. I had older cousins that used…

— Brandon Jennings

I started playing ball when I was 13 and a half. Before that, I just wanted to play football and baseball but I kept…

— Moses Malone

I couldn't shoot with both hands until I was a junior in college. I was strictly right-handed until then.

— George Mikan

I started playing ball when I was 4 years old.

— J. D. Martinez

I used to catch and take a big dip down and then finally I'd try to shoot. That first year playing the NBA, I…

— Joe Ingles

Seventh grade is when I met my shooting coach and he fixed my shot. I used to shoot with two hands. Really ever since…

— Tyler Herro

My mom used to be a basketball player so I was really into it. Plus of course my height made it easier for me…

— Zaza Pachulia

I played high school basketball at six feet, then I went to 5-11 in my 50's, and then, bang, I went down to 5-9.

— Tom Brokaw