Jahlil Okafor Quotes

I played basketball and soccer my freshman year in high school.

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

From the time I started playing... When I tried out for a team in sixth grade and on - I was always starting through high school.

My kids are little athletes.

In the summertime, I played Little League baseball; football in the fall; basketball in the winter.

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

I played Little League in junior high and high school.

But I was very much into sports when I was a child.

Ever since I was young, I played sports.

When I was a kid, I was always an athlete. I played a lot of sports. I played football, basketball, baseball and soccer.

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

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.

I was in an academy from the age of eight. I couldn't play for my grassroots team then.

I would say I was into two sports as a kid: basketball and baseball.

I played all sports coming up in Texas. I played basketball, football, baseball, ran track. All through high school I did all of that.

I have always been into sports, right from school.

I played football until my sophomore year of high school, then I stopped.

I think the first team I ever played for was a YMCA team, probably around when I was seven years old. And really I have vague memories of it. I think, at that age, you're just trying to make sure the ball stays in bounds.

I had never played a team sport when I was younger.

I was a child who was interested in sports, and represented my school in football, cricket, badminton and table tennis.

I haven't played quarterback since eighth or ninth grade. I didn't see it get much attention when I completed a pass then.

As an early teen, soccer is the number one thing that you do - and I wasn't very good at that.

I've not seen my two girls play high school sports.

I was wrestling all the way to high school, but it kind of came in the same season as basketball, so I had to pick and choose one, and I decided to go all the way with basketball.