“I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in.”
David Duchovny
“The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play 'Drop the Handkerchief.'”
James Naismith
“They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me.”
Earvin Magic Johnson
“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
“What you are as a person is far more important that what you are as a basketball player.”
John Wooden
“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
“You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.”
Bobby Knight
