Tristan Thompson Quotes

My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.

I am a huge Pistons fan. Those were some of my best times in college, watching the Detroit Pistons.

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

As long as you put on a jersey, no matter what kind of jersey it is, as long as you're supporting the game of basketball, I enjoy it.

I am an avid NBA fan.

I'm a huge NBA fan and have been for a really long time.

When I was a baby, I was on a tennis court every day with my mom and with my brothers, so I would pick up the balls for them when they'd play, and then sometimes I'd play with them, but not very often.

I've always watched the NBA growing up.

We're a basketball family.

It's fun coming back home, playing against the Grizzlies and to have the opportunity to come back and see my family.

I thought basketball was a game for women. My mother played basketball, and so did my sister.

The beginning of my love for football goes back to when I was seven years old. I was spending time with my grandmother, Caletha Vick. I never knew anything about the game until one Sunday afternoon when she turned on the television because the Redskins were playing. They were my Uncle Casey's favorite team-and my grandmother's favorite too. After watching the game with them, I was hooked.

I had this aunt who had a career and traveled. She'd say things like, "When you go to college, I think we should go scuba diving in the summer. The scuba diving in Portugal is fabulous." And I'd be like, "Portugal! Holy cats!".

I come from a big family and I was never completely on my own.

Basketball is definitely basketball and that's what we love to play, but in the NBA, there's a business side of it. It's a very serious matter and it's important. It's important to me, it's important to my family.

I grew up in the woods; we were either on three-wheelers or four-wheelers or we were playing basketball.

I've learned that my son is obsessed with basketball. He sits down and watches the games with me, and wants to go play all the time.

I was fortunate enough to play in a number of finals, and I can still remember waking with butterflies in my stomach. It is at moments like those you realise why you fell in love with football in the first place.

I like to watch the NBA.

There wasn't a favorite team or player in the Betts household. I played baseball, day in, day out, and learned the game my own way alongside my parents - Willie and Diana.

I started playing street hockey, but there were tennis courts near my house, and it was my father who suggested I try. I don't really know why.

I'm quite boring away from football, chilling with my mates and having down time with my family.

When I was born, I lived with my dad for two years. I was always watching him on a tennis court as a kid, he was a fanatic. Boris Becker would come to the house and play chess.

My dad put up a basket on my street, and I was practicing every day. It was just nuts. But I miss it. Whenever I see a ball, I get itchy!

I'm so excited to play with Udonis Haslem.