In the tennis world, there weren't a whole lot of Asians playing. You see it a little bit more now. The same can really be said for basketball.
Michael Chang
BasketballWorldYouSaidTennis
I was always an athlete; my grandfather and my dad are basketball players, and I played sports my whole life.
Juliana Harkavy
LifeSportsBasketballGrandfather
People used to ask me, 'What else do you want to do?' For me, the answer was, 'Nothing.' I loved basketball. It's all I wanted.
Chris Bosh
PeopleMeBasketballLovedYouWant
I feel like people who know me, my fans, I want them to know I'm just a regular 21-year-old kid who likes movies, who likes to have fun. It lets people see the other side of you and not just the basketball thing.
Zach LaVine
FunPeopleMeBasketballHave Fun
It took me a while to realize that basketball wasn't football.
Merlin Olsen
FootballMeBasketballRealizeTook
Being named as a finalist for the USA Basketball National Team is an unbelievable feeling and an opportunity that is truly humbling. It is an honor to be included with such talented players and I look forward to the chance to represent my country this summer.
James Harden
OpportunityTeamBasketballForward
I'm from Denver, and basketball there isn't near what it is out in Chicago or Detroit or L.A. There weren't that many great players to come out of the area; I was the best player in high school. I was Player of the Year four straight years for the state. As a freshman, I was State Player of the Year; I was Mr. Everything, so I was a phenom.
Chauncey Billups
GreatBestSchoolBasketballYear
Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.
Yao Ming
LearningCultureMeBasketballLearn
I believe in order to coach, you've got to start at the ground level. The same way I learned how to play basketball.
Metta World Peace
BasketballStartBelieveYouPlay
I love to cook like a mad man. If I could do it all over again? I would be a NBA basketball player.
Henry Zebrowski
LoveManBasketballMadOverCook
I realize that I'm not going to be doing interviews for the cover of 'GQ' for the rest of my life, know what I mean? I'm on TV because I play basketball really well.
Chris Paul
LifeBasketballRestMy LifeDoing
When I come home, it's about my kid, who needs to eat, needs to do homework, and needs to get to basketball. I don't have a lot of time to think about me.
Taraji P. Henson
HomeTimeMeBasketballThinkKid
There're a lot of rules to basketball.
Amar'e Stoudemire
BasketballRulesLot
I want to be an all-around basketball player.
Giannis Antetokounmpo
BasketballWantBasketball Player
I graduated with about 23 people, so if you were the least bit athletic, you kind of had to play everything. So I played baseball, basketball, football, ran track, and played golf.
Cole Swindell
FootballBaseballPeopleBasketball
A friend told me about a Nike competition, where they give you one minute to do tricks with a basketball. I wasn't going to go, but they were giving away free sneakers. I ended up coming in second place.
Ramon Rodriguez
FriendCompetitionMeBasketballYou
Playing basketball all my life, I've collected a lot of different basketball shoes. It's pretty much all I wear.
Stephen Curry
LifeShoesBasketballMy LifePretty
My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We've all been very athletic.
Grace Jones
MotherBasketballChampionThree
I sort of tried to get a basketball scholarship out of high school, but that didn't happen. Then I started working for UPS, and that paid for tuition for school. I moved to a bigger town, Louisville. I did it for a year. I had to work the graveyard shift. And then you get off at eight for classes, so that sucked. Then I dropped out.
Boyd Holbrook
WorkSchoolBasketballHigh School
I remember standing on a medal podium at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, imbued with a sense that if you won enough basketball games, there was no such thing as poor, backward, country, female, or inferior.
Pat Summitt
BasketballEnoughRememberYouPoor
I love basketball because it's social, and you're not even thinking about working out - you're just playing a game and getting great exercise at the same time.
Sterling K. Brown
LoveGreatTimeBasketballGameYou
Once I grew from 6'1' to about 6'6', by that time I was going into 12th grade, and that's when I started wanting to play basketball, because, pretty much basketball players always got the girl.
Eric Williams
GirlTimeBasketballPlayAlways
As I've said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators - not recently - fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.
Bobby Knight
PeopleBasketballThinkNobodySaid
You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os.
Oscar Robertson
BasketballGameTalkingYouNeed
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