Greg Oden Quotes

From the start, all I did was play football. I briefly played badminton and won a tournament when I was 12, but really, it was always football.

I was a sports nut. I stayed after school probably three hours every day - from fall, to winter, to spring. I went from football to basketball to track, and it started all over again. I loved all of it. I just loved being an athlete and all that it entailed. It really accounts for who I am today and even how I think today.

It was all I lived for, to play baseball.

I don't think I would have made it as a cricketer.

My father was a really good athlete, so his pop-ups really were sky high. Eventually I learned how to judge them properly and catch them well. It was great training for when I started to play on teams, which I did all through school.

What our kids learn to do is fight. So when you watch a Devin Booker, you look at Tyler Ulis - they fight.

We are footballers, not artists.

I feel like I should be an NBA player.

All I can do is play football, put it on film.

I've just been playing football for a long time. I've been playing football since I was a little kid, so it's just some natural blessings that God has blessed me with to get to the ball and understand what I've been doing over the years.

I always just take pride in being a basketball player.

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

Honestly, the only thing I loved when I was a kid was basketball. I was an athlete when I was a kid, and that was it.

I was born to play baseball.

Every memory I had growing up was involving a basketball. I didn't go to the prom and stuff like that. It was always basketball for me.

I played softball. I was on an all-star team. I traveled with the team. I loved it.

I'm more akin to football than I think anything else because that's what I played in high school.

I wish I could play little league now. I'd be way better than before.

My sophomore year I spent exactly one day on the JV football team. It was the tryout day.

My real-life athletic career was not very much. I played Little League baseball.

I am, first of all, a basketball player. I've done this for so very long... For me, it's been essential to be successful on the court.

Well, first I have to make the team, of course.

Sports was my entire life as long as I can remember.

Again, like I said, I went out to play the game of baseball because I love to play it. I did it right. I did it the right way. I worked hard doing it.

I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.