I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now.
Magic Johnson

I was homecoming queen. I was star of my basketball team.
Marla Maples

I'm not a role model... Just because I dunk a basketball doesn't mean I should raise your kids.
Charles Barkley

I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I'm pretty athletic and I play basketball a lot.
Jay Hernandez

I'm the basketball version of a gravedigger.
Dennis Rodman

I've always been like that. I was a tomboy when I was a kid, so I was always playing baseball and basketball and football and stuff as a kid with the boys.
Catherine Bell

I've done a lot of basketball drills, not a whole lot of competitive stuff. I have basically been in the gym everyday working on my game, working on the time off that I've had from the game, just getting myself prepared mentally and physically for the season.
Grant Hill

I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport.
Mike Krzyzewski

If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.
Isiah Thomas

If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.
Charles Barkley

If there wasn't any business and it was just strictly basketball, then there would be no issue, it would probably be done by now. But the team has to protect.
Jason Kidd

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

If you're playing basketball with someone who's better than you, you have to get better or else it's no fun.
Jason Behr

In 1981, at age 31, I was voted the best player in basketball, and the most valuable player in the league.
Julius Erving

In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.
Pat Summerall

In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play.
David Morse

In sixth grade, my basketball team made it to the league championships. In double overtime, with three seconds left, I rebounded the ball and passed it - to the wrong team! They scored at the buzzer and we lost the game. To this day, I still have nightmares!
Zac Efron

In the original script, my character was a basketball player rather than a boxer. I didn't think I could pull that off. I'm a little short to be a basketball player!
Eddie Murphy

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