Shabazz Muhammad Quotes

As far as I can judge, English football is not for everybody. You need to have the lungs for it, you need to have the strength for it.

I despised basketball for a long time.

I like a girl who can be a girl but also ready to play basketball.

I was helped by the fact that my dad is a cricket fanatic and that my three brothers and two sisters all played. It's just part of our family.

Soccer runs in my blood.

Tennis is very tough.

It has always been in my make up to play a high percentage of games.

I definitely have my dad's competitive streak in me.

At first sight, Pogba was notable for his size and physicality, and when you got to know him, there was also a confidence about him.

I played volleyball, basketball, softball, and I started to love soccer the most around 7-8 years old because it was a physical game. I could use my speed and strength to my advantage.

I started liking basketball when I was 13, but I couldn't play because my dad thought it was too physical.

I couldn't change if I wanted to. I can't not go hard through screens and I can't not play on defense hard. It's just the way that I'm built and the way that I play.

I've always been a physical player.

I played a lot of right field with Tampa.

The truth is I have never been any good at sport, OK?

I feel like my game is more like LeBron's than Kobe's, so that's why I think I gravitated toward his game more.

My mom, she's just a baller in the ring. My scrappy side and my aggressiveness are probably coming from her.

I'm probably one of the most competitive people you'll ever meet. I want to dunk on my nephews. I'll block my 2-year-old's shot to make it hard on them.

It's quite strange, because off the field I'm quite shy, quiet, prefer to watch a bit of TV at home, but get me on the cricket field I like it all kicking off.

I played fly-half in rugby, so I could influence the game, and midfield in hockey too. So it is part of my sporting DNA to want to be in the game at all times, to affect what is going on. That's down to genetics and being ginger, I reckon. We're special specimens.

One thing about me is that my parents didn't force me to be an athlete.

There are certain guys that are obviously a lot more talented than myself and a lot of the other players in the league, but... once you gotta play against me, all that's out the window.

I played all sports growing up. Baseball was always my favorite, though.

As a kid, my parents told me I always seemed to play football with older people. As a boy, I always trained in the age group above, and even kicking about on the street, I'd play with the bigger ones.

People who don't like football don't appreciate my game, but I like it.