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I have 'the first' attached to my name in a whole lot of different aspects when it comes to the sport of basketball. -- Lisa Leslie
I definitely like to stay active. Im a huge fan of the NBA and the sport of basketball. I love to play pick-up games in Brooklyn where I live. -- Brendan Dooling
I definitely like to stay active. I'm a huge fan of the NBA and the sport of basketball. I love to play pick-up games in Brooklyn where I live. -- Brendan Dooling
Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school. -- Mike Krzyzewski
For me, basketball kind of mirrors life. It sounds deep, but the sport has transformed my personality and my daily coping mechanisms. It has meant a lot. -- Robbie Jones
I wanted to be a football player. Football is a sport that I love, but the more I started playing basketball, the more I started dreaming of playing in the NBA. -- Dwyane Wade
I'd rather be a face for happiness and doing things that you have a passion for, rather than faking it and pretending like I'm this face of women's basketball, when I can't stand the sport at all. -- Elena Delle Donne
I played Little League baseball, but I also played basketball. Basketball was my primary sport. When you play basketball seriously, a lot of times, through the summer season, you continue playing. So that replaced me playing baseball. -- Chadwick Boseman
In an individual sport, yes, you have to win titles. Baseball's different. But basketball, hockey? One person can control the tempo of a game, can completely alter the momentum of a series. There's a lot of great individual talent. -- Kobe Bryant
The beautiful thing about the game of golf is you can play good golf and compete well into your later years, and you can't do this in basketball or football or baseball. But in golf, it's a longer live sport. -- Tom Watson
There's discussion in athletics about how sport - where they say 'SportsCenter' has ruined the fundamentals of basketball because it's - it only applauds dunks and three point shots and blocks, and I think, you know, the cable news has done the same thing for politics. -- Dan Pfeiffer
I played baseball, and that's pretty much it. Basketball came late, this was, basketball was the sport that I tried to master, I kind of mastered baseball, so basketball was one of those things where I wanted to master this game, so that's why I probably play it the way I do. -- Eric Williams
Basketball was always my sport. It just took me until my second year of college for me to realize that I was a better baseball player than a basketball player. But basketball was always my number one love. Finally found out I was better at baseball and chose to pursue that route. -- Curtis Granderson
I'll show you just how cruel a sport basketball is. -- Atsushi
You know, softball is the other sport I do besides basketball. -- LeBron James
Basketball is my favorite sport, and I'm also a very passionate football fan. -- Abhishek Bachchan
Basketball really had its origin in Indiana, which remains the center of the sport. -- James Naismith
Basketball is the worst sport. They need to raise the basket at least two feet. -- W. P. Kinsella
In a team sport like basketball, every time you help somebody else, you help yourself. -- Pete Carril
Analytics only goes so far. Basketball, more than baseball, for example, is really a team sport. -- Steve Ballmer
Basketball isn't just a sport. It is an art, one that must be mastered to succeed. -- Stephen Curry
It's just about being in the zone, in any sport, be it football, basketball or baseball. -- Mark Teixeira
Whirlyball is only the most awesome sport on the planet! It's like bumper cars plus lacrosse meets basketball. -- St. Vincent
You have to remember that baseball really was the American pastime in the Forties, not football, basketball or any other sport. -- Harrison Ford
Basketball isn't as popular in Canada as it is in the US. Hockey is by far the most popular sport in Canada. -- Steve Nash
Football's another sport I absolutely despise. Along with baseball. Really, for me, basketball's the only real sport, the only one that matters. -- Stephen Graham Jones
I was a better basketball player growing up in high school than I was a swimmer. Basketball to this day is my favorite sport. -- Ryan Lochte
Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps. -- Tiger Woods
I've always thought basketball was the best sport, although it wasn't the sport I was best at. It was just the most fun to watch. -- Jack Nicholson
Basketball is a sport that involves the subtle interweaving of players at full speed to the point where they are thinking and moving as one. -- Phil Jackson
It's intense in every sport. No matter what, USC vs. UCLA is crazy. Especially when it comes down to football and basketball, it's just nuts. -- Akeem Ayers
I was sporty in high school. I played tennis and hockey, and was basketball captain. Then I went to university and stopped doing sport and started eating ice cream. -- Rebel Wilson
Basketball would have been the natural sport to play, but it's a little too aggressive for me, so instead I dabbled in volleyball and some good old-fashioned Roller Derby. -- Jessica Williams
I think that my God-given physical attributes, big hands, and big feet, the way that I'm built, proportion-wise, just made basketball the most inviting sport for me to play. -- Julius Erving
Basketball, more than any other sport, is a team game...about the thousands of small, unselfish acts, the sacrifices on the part of the players that result in team building. -- Dean Smith

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