Basketball Quote by Luol Deng

Africans are not as tall as northern Europeans. But Manute Vol and other sports figures in basketball and football receive a lot of press…

— Richard H. Steckel

I used to play soccer when I was in Morocco, but I was more of a basketball player. I played high school basketball, I…

— French Montana

I was one of those athletic African players.

— Masai Ujiri

I was taller than most of the kids. When I started playing basketball, my coach put me at point guard. Europeans do that sometimes.

— Vlade Divac

Watching Ibaka and all those people. They were from Africa. They spoke French. They were kind of like me. That's when I began thinking…

— Pascal Siakam

My parents were basketball people.

— Anna Boden

Growing up in Harlem, I had the chance to practice with a Negro League team. At fifteen, I was over six feet tall and…

— Walter Dean Myers

I started playing in school. Lots of kids in Yugoslavia play basketball.

— Vlade Divac

I feel I was born to play basketball.

— Larry Johnson

I guess I concentrated exclusively on basketball because of my height. If I was shorter, I don't think I would play.

— Anne Donovan

When I got to Central Arkansas, I was a small, slim guy with little chance of playing in the NBA. Then, I went through…

— Scottie Pippen

We grew up in the basketball world.

— Domantas Sabonis