Giannis Antetokounmpo Quotes

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

When you're in the slam dunk contest, you try to do the things the average person would have trouble doing on a Nerf basket.

You bring a car out, you're going to win any dunk contest.

A lot of people I've played with see me as a scorer and a shooter. I'm still fast and everything like that, but then, when they see me dunk, it's like 'Oh, damn.'

I hate talking about the dunk contest. I'm just so sick of the dunk contest. I'm done with that. That point of my life I'm over with.

I would like to dunk on Shaq.

Against Bradley, every time I'm trying to dunk, dunk, dunk.

I've done about anything I can fantasize about in the cold.

I loved Muggsy Bogues when he was in the league.

I'm not really a flashy dunker or a show dunker unless somebody's in front of me. That's the only time I really get wide-eyed: when I can dunk on somebody. If it's a wide-open dunk, I've never been the type to dunk it real hard wide-open and scream.

My earliest memory was watching gymnastics on live TV and wanting to do what the 'big girls' did.

I'll never be in a dunk contest again. I don't ever want to be a part of it.

I remember when I was a kid, I would visualise wearing the India colours and walking on the field in front of an amazing atmosphere, and I feel it has helped me a lot throughout my career.

If I'd stopped dreaming, I don't think I'd be here; I'd be somewhere else.

My older brother, he did everything. He played baseball, he played basketball. Just being able to watch him as a youngster, wanting to be like him, wanting to play on the team with him and watching those older guys in my neighborhood play sports.

I don't like one-foot jumpers like LeBron James. It looks better jumping off two feet. Every time Michael Jordan jumped off two feet, it looked so much better.

I remember me being that kid growing up. Me being the kid that grew up going to games and being a ball boy and wanting a high five from Blake Griffin or the other players.

Have you imagined me acting in a TV drama? I have, when I was young.

I don't always have to dunk the ball.

I was a dreamer when I was younger.

It's just something I always dreamed about when I was little. I always thinking about playing in an All-American game, and the Under Armour All-America Game was the one game I always wanted to play in, so once I got the opportunity and invite, I chose it.

Dreaming costs nothing, no?

As a kid, you just want to play football. For me one day it will end, but until the end I love getting the opportunity to go out there and play at a high level.

I always watched Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson, and I said I could be playing on the court with them.

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