Tony Finau Quotes

It helps me get rebounds, I can see over the defense pretty easily, and yeah, I thank God he blessed me with height.

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

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.

You know, I'm just 6'9" and 260. And just so happen to be very good at playing the game of basketball.

I was always a mean and lean athlete - not tall - not large.

Of course I love basketball.

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

LeBron James - I'm such a big basketball fan, and to be in his body for a day and be able to just dunk at will, have that level of court awareness and size, oh my goodness, that would be a treat.

I'm bigger than most two guards.

With my size and length I can affect the game in a lot of ways.

When you have an almost seven-foot wingspan and can guard multiple positions, you're going to get minutes.

In college I played power forward because I was one of the biggest guys on the team and my versatility allowed me to do that.

If I was 6'3'', I'd be playing basketball for sure.

I would like to dunk on Shaq.

I have big hands - I wear either a XXXL or XXL glove. I have a 6-8 wingspan on a 5-11 body - I can dunk. My wingspan allows me to do a lot of things that other people at my height might not be able to do.

I've got a strong face, a strong body. I'm 5'11.

My father was always pushing me to become a basketball player. In Africa, when you're a kid, every kid loves to play soccer, and I loved playing soccer. But my dad didn't want me playing soccer. He would joke, 'C'mon, man, you're too tall!' Then he promised me, 'If you start playing basketball, I'm going to give you my jersey.'

When I was a kid, my favorite event was the Slam Dunk Contest.

I think I can play power forward; I think I can play center as well.

I've been a dunker for longer than I've been a basketball player.

I was so tall in high school that I was convinced that I was uncoordinated and not athletic. I was terrified to play any sport at all, no matter how hard they tried to convince me to be on the girls' basketball team as the tallest kid in class.

My 10th grade year I was 6-foot-4 and I grew to like 6-foot-7, but I still had my guard skills. I was playing point guard, I was a big guard. People started calling me 'Penny Hardaway' - comparing me to him because I was a big guard.

I'm the best guard in this league, defensively, man, hands down.

You give me enough shots, I'll average 20. You give me a particular system where I stick close to the basket, I'll average 10 rebounds.

I have a great body for the NBA.