My mother taught me to always be strong and always work hard. She's been working hard her whole life for me and my brother. I'm a lot like her in that I work hard for what I want. She taught me that.
During 1866 and 1922, Native Americans and black soldiers often intermingled in the American west, on the frontier.
Even when there are adverse circumstances, I try to do my job. And I usually do.
I believe that if I committed to basketball, I could make an impact in the NBA. I now see football as my job and my greatest challenge.
Many people think sports are totally physical, that you don't have to think, everything is done for you and you're catered to, I found that to be so far removed from the truth that it's almost a joke. The ones who become stars are the ones who have a head on their shoulders and know how to use it.
If you've experienced having control, you don't want to be moved to a subordinate position, if you have your druthers.
I try to take it and leave it in God's hands. I try to do what He wants me to do and come out here and perform the best I can for my teammates. That's my responsibility. This is a tough league. Outside of basketball, the lifestyle is tough - the travel. Honestly, I think that responsibility is pretty tough but I don't believe that God gives us anything we can't handle.
I'm glad I stayed in school four years. It matured me as a man and as a basketball player.
I love football. My weekends are booked. Saturday college games and Sunday NFL and 'Monday Night Football.' Booked! Football is first, then basketball and then everything else.
As a leader, you will receive a large amount of praise and criticism and you should not unduly affected by either.
My philosophy of defense is to keep the pressure on an opponent until you get to his emotions
Loyalty is a cohesive force that forges individuals into a team.
Bill Russell is one of the great names in basketball, an all-American... and the only athlete to ever win an NCAA Championship, an Olympic Gold Medal, and a professional championship all in the same year-1956...But Bill Russell had this one problem: He threw up before every game.
I've always been athletic. Growing up in Puerto Rico, and being in the countryside, I was always running around. I also played volleyball, basketball, and I ran track. I was always very conscious of my body.
Tennis was always there for me, which was lucky. I would go play baseball, basketball, football, hang with my brother, do whatever, and at the end of the day I'd come back and say, 'Hey, Mom, would you hit 15 minutes worth of balls with me?'
You need to be more careful, or you could hurt yourself.
The Hall of Fame has strong people.
I really do miss playing basketball. I don't play a lot of pick-up games. But I do like using basketball as a form of cross training.
"Competing in both track and field and basketball for the Bruins I have a lot of great memories to choose from. But my all-time favorite moment in collegiate sports has to be in 1982 when we won UCLA's first NCAA title in track."
Here's a six-foot-ten guy in sneakers and the lady's asking me, 'Profession?'
My life is very simple. I like simplicity and for my time to be my own, so that I have the freedom to devote the majority of it to Islam.
My childhood dream was to play basketball, actually.
I got into running because I was too uncoordinated to play baseball, too small for basketball, and too tiny for football. I lived in a broken home and had looked to those sports as a way of staying away from my home.
The way my team are doing, we could get Wilt Chamberlain in a trade and find out that he's really two midgets Scotch-taped together.
Five players on the floor functioning as a single unit: team, team, team-no one more important than the other.
