Dikembe Mutombo Quotes

I'm pretty athletic and I play basketball a lot.

I love to cook like a mad man. If I could do it all over again? I would be a NBA basketball player.

My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball.

I want to play basketball so bad.

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

I'm a huge fan of basketball. Any time you get a chance to watch basketball, I do it.

I can't say I go through life liking it and that I pursue to be hated, but I did pursue to be a good basketball player.

I felt like I was chosen to play basketball when I was younger.

I started liking basketball when I was 13, but I couldn't play because my dad thought it was too physical.

I keep myself in shape. I love the game of basketball, and I really feel like it doesn't matter about your age.

There are a lot of great athletes on the PGA Tour and a lot of good basketball players. But I can definitely put my name in the mix as one of the best.

I always just take pride in being a basketball player.

Basketball was always a game to me. One of the greatest things in life for me was to be able to play what I loved dearly and get paid for it. So it was always a game to me and that's how I perceived everything.

I'm one of the best defenders to ever play basketball, so I'm still the first option on defense.

President Obama just made his first presidential trip to the state of Utah. Obama spent his time in Utah just like you'd expect - telling people, 'Uh, no, I don't play for the Jazz.'

President Obama recently said that his day is all about politics, so in the mornings he likes to watch ESPN. So if you get the feeling he's repeating himself every half hour, that's where he learned it from.

I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.

I don't worry about playing basketball; that comes natural. I just want to have fun. David Robinson, Patrick Ewing, Michael Jordan: this is like spring break in the ghetto.

I'm LeBron, baby. I can play on this level. I got some game.

The player who puts the ball through the hoop has ten hands.

How can I play baseball when I'm worried about foreign policy?

I think that my God-given physical attributes, big hands, and big feet, the way that I'm built, proportion-wise, just made basketball the most inviting sport for me to play.

Any old coach will say the game was meant for finesse. It's a beautiful game, especially on television.

Baseball's still a game. I don't want it to be work. I want it to be a game.

I can play a power game, but I also have the ability to step it up to another level and hit shots even further on call.