D'Brickashaw Ferguson Quotes

I don't know if I could have made it as an NBA player. But I knew I could make it as a coach.

I wanted to be a football player. Football is a sport that I love, but the more I started playing basketball, the more I started dreaming of playing in the NBA.

I always just take pride in being a basketball player.

Basketball made me happy to be tall. And more secure about myself than I ever would have been without it.

Playing professional football is something I'll never be able to do.

You see so many different personalities and mind-sets in the world of sports, just like you do with actors.

I've been in basketball a long time, and nobody is more of a competitor than I am.

Sports have always been a big part of my life. At school, I played a lot of different sports, and I was competing with other schools. I did everything: running, volleyball, basketball, soccer, Olympic-style gymnastics, and more! My history with sports gave me good concentration, focus, strength, and motivation to stay healthy.

If someone had told me at fourteen that I'd be six-ten, I might have stuck with basketball, in all seriousness.

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.

Having played in the league during the '80s, '90s, and the new millennium (old, I know), I had the chance to see firsthand how the best point guards of our time played the game.

I feel like I should be an NBA player.

I don't just want to be that guy who throws hard.

I grew up with sports, but I was definitely not good enough to become a professional athlete - I just loved the storytelling aspect of it.

At the time, when I was growing up, my habits were misconstrued as laziness, not caring. But when I got out onto the pitch I actually did care about football, I just showed it in a different way.

Men from my tribe in Sudan - the Dinka tribe - are very tall, so you could say I was born to play basketball.

I went to Kentucky to be a better player.

You always - as a basketball player, as a competitor - that's where you speak most: on the court.

I was always a good athlete. I just gave up on football.

I don't say I'm necessarily a professional football player. I'm a competitor. That's what was instilled in me as a young boy.

I had a beautiful life as a basketball player.

In high school I just loved to compete and play sports. I didn't have a sport that I was going to say, 'Hey, I'm going to play this at the next level.' Whatever my best opportunity was was what I was going to do.

I'm not trying to be like what I thought an NBA player is supposed to be growing up.

To be able to have winning in your blood growing up, whether it was pounding my little brother or trying to beat my dad in something, or just competing on teams with my friends, it was nonstop.

I played all kinds of sports when I was young: tennis, handball, basketball, some soccer. I focused on basketball when I was 16 or 17 and then came to the U.S. when I was 20.