Basketball Quote by Melvin Van Peebles

I played basketball to try to get my parents from working so hard.

— James Worthy

I worked every day - Christmas Eve, birthdays - trying to become a great basketball player. Everywhere I went, I had a basketball.

— Harvey Mason, Jr

My dad was a professional basketball player, and my mom was a hell of a tennis player.

— Luke Rockhold

I was always an athlete; my grandfather and my dad are basketball players, and I played sports my whole life.

— Juliana Harkavy

I've always been lucky enough to just play tennis, so I never actually had a job when I was growing up.

— Andy Murray

My dad was my coach in baseball and early on in basketball, so playing baseball was something we always did.

— Matthew Stafford

I'm used to playing basketball my whole life.

— Juancho Hernangomez

Before, I did a lot of things. I played soccer, skateboard. But after my dad passed, I was straight to basketball.

— Dennis Schroder

My dad never pushed me to play basketball. I tried it, and I was pretty rag-tag for a long time.

— Larry Nance, Jr

I've been playing basketball since I was five.

— C. J. McCollum

Like, I did baseball, football, or track - I never really worked on a sport every day for years like most kids that hoop.

— Willie Cauley-Stein

I didn't associate playing tennis with making a living until I was maybe 18 or 19.

— Johanna Konta