Jamal Crawford Quotes

I grew six, seven inches in junior year of high school, so I played guard my whole life growing up. So I think there's where I got my skill set from.

I've always been a high-percentage shooter, obviously because I'm dunking and laying the ball up.

I really want to start playing basketball. I actually bought a new basketball.

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

You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os.

You have to be wired a certain way to be a professional basketball player, and the way my body grew, something happened genetically that allowed me to become a lot more explosive.

My focus is basketball, and that's it.

At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very quickly in all sports.

I was a total jock growing up. I went to super-dorky basketball clinics and was handpicked to play on a state team called the Texas Heat.

I know how hard it is to shoot the basketball, so I've got great appreciation for it.

Basketball was every day of my life. Wake up with a ball - sometimes I'd sleep with it because someone told me that was better for you.

I am blessed with a reasonable athletic talent and was an athlete in school.

You know the secret to dunking a ball? Big hands. You've got to be able to palm it, and I couldn't.

Prince never, ever mentioned it except to say he wished he was taller so he could play basketball. He was actually a really great basketball player.

My mom used to be a basketball player so I was really into it. Plus of course my height made it easier for me to decide what kind of sport I wanted to play, so at the age of nine I went to my first basketball practice.

I know I can play in the NBA, and I can be a very good player in the NBA.

I wasn't always tall. I was shorter so my stepdad had me at point guard so I learned those skills.

There is lots of enthusiasm among youth of Haryana about sports. They have potential in sports.

I think a lot of people have the idea that all I do is dunk and all I do is make layups.

I started playing in school. Lots of kids in Yugoslavia play basketball.

I can shoot, or I can roll, I can finish inside, I can take two-point shots, I can switch on defence and I can protect the paint.

My thing is, when Barkley played basketball, he didn't practice, he wasn't a leader, he wasn't this or that, he just had natural talent so he got chosen to the Dream Team, All Star team because he had the talent and he was the franchise player on the team.

I played baseball too, and flag football, but basketball was the easiest for me. Then when I was 12, my dad asked me what I wanted to do, and I said 'Be an NBA player.' Since then, he started training me.

I played one year of competitive basketball, actually. I don't remember what grade I was in, maybe middle school or something. I was the point guard - I was the smallest one always. I did my best; I thought I did pretty good. I was always a little bit better at soccer, so I had to make the decision.

If you ask somebody who played basketball against me in the first grade and you watch a tape, it's been with me since I was a kid. I've always had this mentality to go out there and defend.