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I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing.

And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.

When I look at the system here and look at my position - not just as a basketball player, but when I look around me at the values of the people and the culture and compare them with the values of where I came from - I feel so blessed to be from Africa.

Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try.

Nobody cared about swimming. You could draw a crowd for basketball.

The basketball coach cut me within two days, so I was back in the pool. I was the first one in the wall after the first 25 yards, but the last one out because I didn't have a flip turn.

It took me a while to realize that basketball wasn't football.

I wanted a NBA basketball gym at my house and that's what I worked hard for and I was able to achieve that.

By analogy, if we were to develop a soccer team, then we would not invite basketball and volleyball players to the try outs. We would invite soccer players to apply.

I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy.

He knew I enjoyed the relationships of college basketball. All along, he was the wise one.

I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Those are the sports in America that we grow up with and soccer isn't really there yet.

You don't cut anywhere, don't pick down anywhere, don't double screen, no weak side picking. All these things that should happen in a game of basketball don't happen anymore.

You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os.

Basketball is basketball.

I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen.

If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.

I'm the basketball version of a gravedigger.

That's the awesome part. Little girls now have a chance to look up and see women playing soccer, basketball, softball and now hockey - and know they can win a gold medal, too.

Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances.