Grayson Allen Quotes

At 4, I joined a summer rec team called the Sugar Bears.

I played softball. I was on an all-star team. I traveled with the team. I loved it.

Ever since I was young, I played sports.

I grew up playing every sport.

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.

My father was a really good athlete, so his pop-ups really were sky high. Eventually I learned how to judge them properly and catch them well. It was great training for when I started to play on teams, which I did all through school.

My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.

I was a huge athlete as a kid. I was on every sports team.

I played Little League in junior high and high school.

If you look at any superior athlete, you will find a strong parental influence. Parents introduce their children to a sport, and then they support them.

The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel.

I'm more akin to football than I think anything else because that's what I played in high school.

I played sports growing up in high school.

Well, first I have to make the team, of course.

I played a ton of team sports growing up, and team wins are just incredibly gratifying.

I played volleyball for the greater part of my life, since I was 11 or 12 years.

My dad just wants me to dedicate myself to playing and to focus on the ball.

I come from a very sporting family and played many sports as a lad.

What our kids learn to do is fight. So when you watch a Devin Booker, you look at Tyler Ulis - they fight.

By the time I turned 16, I'd played more than 300 games outside high school.

I was playing sports all the time, and my parents, Anne and John, encouraged me to play in grade school and high school.

Honestly, I was a troublemaker. The environment I grew up in, my mom and my sister, they decided they were going to sign me up in every single thing to keep me busy. I played football, basketball, baseball. Anything, whatever was in season, I was signed up for it. Basketball was one of the things that just stuck.

Since I was a D-team backup quarterback in seventh grade, I've loved the game.

I started to play in the fourth grade and didn't score for, like, a whole year.

I always enjoyed the training part of baseball. I went to play college baseball and decided it wasn't for me.