Vlade Divac Quotes

For me, I've lived a life as an athlete.

It's the same thing I have been doing since I was 5, playing the game of football. Going out there when my number is called and trying to make plays.

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

I was an athlete when I was growing up.

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

In high school and college, I was an athlete.

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

I am, first of all, a basketball player. I've done this for so very long... For me, it's been essential to be successful on the court.

Football players win football games.

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.

I was the sports captain in school. I've done everything - from javelin to discus to basketball to judo.

You've got to be on all-league teams before you can say that you are going to be a great basketball player.

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

I think that most players enjoy playing football, but, like in everything, there are good moments and bad moments.

All I can do is play football, put it on film.

For a while, I loved everything about it, every single aspect of what was supposed to be a job. The training - I loved to train. I loved the traveling. I dug being in the locker room. I didn't mind icing and heat. I dug it. It was like, 'Cool. I'd rather do this than anything.'

The thing about hockey for me is I'm really competitive and I like to have fun.

I played football my whole life, pretty much.

Sports is my passion.

I think, growing up, I was seen as the perfect power forward. For a long time, I thought maybe I was supposed to be a basketball player.

There's nothing like playing. You can coach and you can be around the game, but there is nothing like playing. It's just so much fun.

I'm happy because I won't have to train again, or travel or sit in team hotels.

You would not want me on your football team.

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

During my freshman year at Cornell, I joined my dorm's intramural football team. At the first practice, upper classmen pointed out I was tall, so I should try playing QB. Well half an hour later, it was abundantly clear that I should not be the QB.