Basketball Popularity Quotes

Baseball is the biggest sport in Japan, then soccer, and basketball is... People don't really care about basketball.

We're talking about being relevant again. I want the Sixers to be on people's tongues again... I want the Sixers to be the basketball team that people want to see.

I remember when I came into the NBA, eighteen years ago, there were maybe nine to twelve international players playing in the NBA. Today we've got more than 85, so that tells you how our game has grown at that level.

We don't really watch basketball in Australia.

If LeBron James is playing in Las Vegas, the arena would be sold out, and it would be rocking. If LeBron James is playing for Las Vegas, it would be beyond sold out.

In France, if you talk to little boys, they know all of the NBA players and not one single Pro A player.

You know, I think more people should watch women's basketball. It'd do so much for the game.

It's good for basketball to grow.

Portland doesn't read like a basketball town, unless you remember what the NBA was like before it exploded into the mainstream in the Eighties: back when cities like Seattle, Baltimore, and Philadelphia moved the needle.

Basketball is booming, and it's not just an Under Armour standpoint: it's about the game itself. Kids going out and playing and being inspired by what we do on the court.

Basketball in Latin America is growing a lot and it's being seen with the quantity of players in the NBA.

In Texas, it's football. In Georgia, football. There's an appreciation from the average person about football more than anywhere else. And we have that for basketball in New York. And we'll always have that in New York.

The NBA wasn't a big deal at that time, so it wasn't really in my career plans.

The NBA is becoming a global game.

I have to give credit to the NBA, because they've done an unbelievable job of taking our game global and putting us in a position to be able to come here and other places in the world and see how big the game of basketball is. If you have never been here, you might not really understand how amazing and how big basketball is. These fans in China love the sport, and they have more players playing than we have people living in the US.

I'm happy that I helped basketball develop; I was trying to help basketball be the world's most popular sport, to bring people together from all over the world, it doesn't matter the background. We are all the soldiers of basketball.

Once I grew from 6'1' to about 6'6', by that time I was going into 12th grade, and that's when I started wanting to play basketball, because, pretty much basketball players always got the girl.

It's a tremendous amount of fans in France that love basketball, that follow it every day even though the games are at like two or three in the morning.

I'm really happy to have been part of spreading the game of basketball and growing the game in a place like Turkey.

I'm an NBA player with no shoe deal. No endorsement deal. And I play in New York!

Here in the U.K., I want basketball to get better. I want the kids to have more playgrounds. I want the kids to have more attention. I want basketball to be on TV more often. But I really don't care if I walk down the street and somebody recognises me or not.

I don't think the world hated Duke basketball before me.

When I came in the NBA, it was more a U.S. game. Now you can watch the NBA anywhere in the world.

I've seen Canada grow on so many different levels when it comes to basketball. The women's game is huge, so why not have a WNBA team here?

Coming onto the Jordan Brand absolutely gives more attention to women's basketball and basketball in general.