Being Quote by Rasheed Wallace

The older you get the more you realize that life is more than just basketball. Your vision of the world gets much wider, and…

— Marc Gasol

I think just by the nature of getting older, I hope that I'm a smarter basketball player than I was at 23.

— Sue Bird

When I was younger, I just thought about playing in the NBA.

— Derrick Rose

As you get older, we have more opportunities, more things going on in our lives that we take it away from basketball and our…

— Paul Millsap

I felt like I was chosen to play basketball when I was younger.

— Chris Bosh

At a really young age you just play ball and you have fun and you don't see basketball as something as a career, it…

— Kristaps Porzingis

As I get older and the more experience I have under my belt, I've come to understand how to love basketball while also not…

— Breanna Stewart

I feel way more comfortable each year I play in the NBA. As a person, I'm just growing up. I do everything by myself…

— Derrick Rose

The NBA is kind of where I've grown up, coming out of high school at 18.

— Shaun Livingston

The NBA is changing so much. It's not like when I came up, with that old-school mentality that practice really mattered.

— Paul Pierce

I think if I had one year of college, I'd have done better with the mental part [of the NBA].

— Jermaine O'Neal

When I was young, basketball wasn't my No. 1 priority.

— Nikola Jokic