Rodney Hood Quotes

It's natural to me. I played point guard my whole life up until my senior year of high school. Most people don't know that. It's just in my game.

I grew six, seven inches in junior year of high school, so I played guard my whole life growing up. So I think there's where I got my skill set from.

I started playing basketball when I was about three years old. After that, everything else just came naturally. I had older cousins that used to let me hang with them, so I got my toughness from them.

Playing point guard is someone's instincts. They're used to that. That's my instincts.

I'd play every position when I was in elementary school and junior high. I was playing as guard, too.

I played guard my whole life, and liked having the ball in my hands.

I played a little basketball. Some football in junior high.

It wasn't until late high school and early college that I gained enough size and skill to make me welcome on intramural basketball teams.

I was president of the schools in junior high and high school, got a scholarship to New York University, played a little basketball, and was a celebrity.

I'm not trying to get back on a team, but I have tried to stay in shape just in case a team needs a point guard. A championship team. I wouldn't go to any other team.

I did play two years of high school football and was very short and uncoordinated but the second year I was very tall and skinny and very uncoordinated.

My chief gifts are - naturally good at all sports with a raw talent for pretty much everything, which if nurtured could develop into improper talent.

I could've played basketball, but my mind was on baseball. I didn't know what I was in for. In high school it was a matter of talent. No one told you what to do.

Sometimes with these big long guys who are really athletic, you don't know when they're going to stop growing.

It's second nature. You just get out there and play basketball.

I play everything but point guard.

I wasn't always tall. I was shorter so my stepdad had me at point guard so I learned those skills.

A point guard can carry a team - if he has all the right stuff.

I grew up playing in the outfield and junior year of high school I went over to first base and got some tidbits from my dad, but it kind of came naturally to me.

Sports is just something I have a knack to figure out how to play.

When I got to the NBA, picking and popping came so natural for me.

When I moved to Mississippi, I was playing in high school, and there wasn't a lot of talent around me. I figured out that I wasn't going to be able to get to the bucket a lot anymore.

I'm just a baller. This is something I love to do and was probably born to do.

I expected to be a pretty good NBA point guard and hopefully win a championship. But MVP and all this stuff? Not really.

Call me whatever you want, but I'm eventually going to play like a power forward.