Dion Waiters Quotes

I've played at Rucker Park a couple of times. It's cold blooded. It's hype in there, real hype.

In New York, the dunk is not the thing. To break somebody down and shoot a J-that's as big as a dunk in New York.

Basketball is big stuff in New York. If you're good in it, everybody respects you. Nobody would want to ruin your shooting eye or your shooting arm.

Being from New York, everybody's a point guard. Even when you play in the park, you've got to know how to handle the ball. If you can't handle the ball, you can't really play.

A basketball was in my hands 24/7, playing one-on-one against everybody and anybody, trying to prove against the older guys, just playing. The wind blowing outside, double rims, stuff like that, just always playing ball.

I grew up playing basketball on the streets of New York City, and it was very, very rough, and I started playing in the NBA in the same way.

Everybody plays basketball in D.C. Not on a team. Just around the way. Anywhere. I actually loved basketball.

Playing basketball all my life, I've collected a lot of different basketball shoes. It's pretty much all I wear.

Anytime basketball is involved, it's fun for me.

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!

No lie, just had one of the best times of my life at Rucker park..wow! I love NYHarlem waddup.

The one thing in most communities, the staple is the basketball court. And when that looks good, I think the community feels good about itself, knowing that people care and have an opportunity to not only play there, but it's also a social meeting place.

Growing up as a kid in inner city of Baltimore, Maryland, the way I played the game, I used to always steal the basketball.

I love the game of basketball. I guess it started with 'Space Jam.' Right after that movie, I went out there to my little Flight hoop and tried to do every dunk in the movie.

I've played more park games than NBA games, and I had a 10-year NBA career.

I'm very good at watching basketball and wearing basketball shoes.

Street football is the greatest thing in the world. There is just you and your friends against the rest.

Philadelphia is a town where even the sidewalks seem to sweat.

I don't need to be a banger. I dunk on people.

I played baseball, was on the basketball team in high school, did crew at Hofstra, and randomly played ultimate frisbee, too. But none of the organized teams I was on were anywhere near as competitive as the games on the street.

Baseball was popular in the summer, but hockey was big most of the time. With five brothers, you never escaped it. We had an indoor rink in our town, and all the boys would play on it right through high school.

I always had my basketball. So when I showed up at the playground, everybody knew what I wanted to do.

We have been playing every summer on clay since I was five years old, so it is an easy surface for us in Belgium.

Growing up in Harlem, I was always in the parks playing ball.

At 7, I was shooting 3s with so much ease that the guys at the neighborhood park were impressed. Michael Jordan was one of the best humans to walk the earth in my eyes, third only to Jesus and my mother.