Luol Deng Quotes

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

As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.

I was an athlete when I was growing up.

Today's Little Leaguers, and there are millions of them each year, pick up how to hit and throw and field just by watching games on TV. By the time they're out of high school, the good ones are almost ready to play professional ball.

I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid.

No one is more of a fan of the game than me: my son is a player.

My dad coached pretty much my whole life. I think he stopped coaching me when I got to the seventh, eighth grade, serious AAU, when I started getting recruited and stuff like that.

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

Honestly, the only thing I loved when I was a kid was basketball. I was an athlete when I was a kid, and that was it.

I was a sports nut. I stayed after school probably three hours every day - from fall, to winter, to spring. I went from football to basketball to track, and it started all over again. I loved all of it. I just loved being an athlete and all that it entailed. It really accounts for who I am today and even how I think today.

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.

I coach a high school wrestling team and a middle school team. I consider myself a coach and an activist, so I'm really involved in the community.

I grew up playing every sport.

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 want to do what I can to give the next generation of athletes added advantages in the game.

My real-life athletic career was not very much. I played Little League baseball.

My dad was my coach in baseball and early on in basketball, so playing baseball was something we always did.

In high school and college, I was an athlete.

I played soccer for 12 years on three different teams at a time.

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.

I went to football training when I was five because I think my father thought he had two boys.

There are great amateur bodies that have good programs right from the grassroots level to professionals.

I have been playing football since I was 7.

The great thing about Little League was that anyone could play it.

My generation put in a lot more hours playing football after school than kids today. These days, all the football these kids play, they play at their clubs, so the clubs need to work seriously on the basic skills.