Firsts Quote by Mike Tirico

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?

— Harold Pinter

If I'm not playing basketball, I'm reading or thinking of stories I can create.

— Robin Lopez

I was a much better writer than I was an athlete. My college coach told me flat out, he said, "Deford, you write basketball…

— Frank Deford

When I came into the NBA, coaches wanted you to shoot a midrange shot or two before you shot your 3 - you know,…

— Kyle Korver

I've done as many as 20 or 30 drafts of a story. Never less than 10 or 12 drafts.

— Raymond Carver

I wrote my first book at eight, all of four pages. At 10, I did a 40-page story. At 12, I wrote two stage plays.

— Caitlin Moran

You write a hit play the same way you write a flop.

— William Saroyan

That's what writing is: it's imagining that you can make a world. That's what basketball is, too: it's imagining the game as a world.

— John Edgar Wideman

I think the best thing about my game that translates into the NBA is being able to create for others. Using open space and…

— Michael Carter-Williams

On 'PG-13,' the way I wrote that is that I would get my tracks ahead of time and then I would write for them,…

— Sharon Needles

I know I'm not the first one or the last one. But still to play 1,000 NBA games is pretty remarkable and pretty cool.

— Zaza Pachulia

I'm the only player in NBA history to be 10 for 10 in a game with at least four threes made.

— Jared Dudley