“I grew up in Arkansas and that's the law. My dad was a high school basketball coach, so I was raised as a coach's son and I was a baseball player back in Arkansas, and I lived in Texas, too, so I was just surrounded by sports. So that's what I was going to do: Pitch for the St Louis Cardinals. I had no idea I was going to be an actor. So I got my collar bone broken in the Kansas City Royals training camp. And once I got hurt I started doing other things for a while.” IdeasSchoolLawActorsSportsHurtCitiesPlayerSonBrokenGrewDadBasketballGrew UpTrainingHigh SchoolBaseballRaisedMy DadBonesCoachesNo IdeaTexasCampsRoyalCollarsCardinalsBaseball PlayerKansasBasketball CoachArkansasKansas CityGot HurtTraining Camp Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“Because I grew up with a drill sergeant in my life, I respect order and it really gave me the discipline to be a leader and not a follower. It also helped me stay out of trouble.” OrderLeaderTroubleGrewDisciplineBasketballGrew UpFollowersDrillsSergeantsDrill Sergeant Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“You know what's fun about basketball? It keeps evolving, and it keeps changing a little bit. And the older guys want to try to hold it back to how they grew up, and it's not the same. You've got to change with the times, and some of the guys you've got to drag across the finish line.” KnowsWantTryingLittlesGuyFunBitsLinesGrewBasketballLittle BitGrew UpEvolveDragFinish LineOlder Guys Author:Mike D'Antoni
“Baseball is like cricket, and I grew up in a country where they had cricket. So I understand cricket, soccer and basketball. I played basketball at the club level and a little bit in college, so thats why Im a basketball fanatic.” LittlesCountryBitsLevelsCollegeGrewBasketballLittle BitGrew UpBaseballClubsSoccerCricketFanatics Author:Patrick Soon-Shiong
“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.” PlayGirlPlayerGrewBasketballGradesBasketball Player Author:Eric Williams
“Basketball has always been a sport I loved and grew up playing. For me, it was one of those things that... I guess baseball was just in my genes a little bit. I have a lot of cousins that played baseball. Basketball is not an easy sport - you definitely got to be gifted to play that game. I felt like I was pretty good at it, but my ability was better in baseball.” LittlesPlayGamesFeltEasyBitsSportsAbilityGrewBasketballLittle BitGrew UpBaseballGenesGiftedCousin Author:Dellin Betances
“Although I grew up in Kansas City, ... I have always kept more or less au courant of Texas barbecue, like a sports fan who is almost monomaniacally obsessed with basketball but glances over at the N.H.L. standings now and then.” SportsCitiesFansGrewBasketballGrew UpStandingObsessedTexasNow And ThenGlancesKansasBarbecueKansas CitySports Fan Author:Calvin Trillin
“I did quite a lot of fencing when I was a kid, I was a swimmer, and I played a lot of basketball. I was a fencer for Great Britain, but I only did that because I watched Robin Hood, Star Wars, Highlander and The Three Musketeers, and I wanted to emulate Richard Harris and the great British actors that I grew up watching.” WarKidsWantedThreeActorsStarsGrewBasketballGrew UpBritishBritainHoodEmulateRobinsGreat BritainSwimmerRobin HoodFencingHighlanderMusketeersThree Musketeers Author:Kieran Bew
“I grew up on basketball, volleyball, that sort of thing. For me, track and field was a whole 'nother beast.” WholeFieldsGrewBasketballGrew UpTrackBeastVolleyballTrack And Field Author:Stephan James
“I'm definitely somewhat of a tomboy. I grew up a pretty big tomboy actually, and was really obsessed with basketball.” BigsGrewBasketballGrew UpObsessed Author:Rachele Brooke Smith
“Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used.” UsedGrewBasketballGrew UpCourtBasketball Court Author:Denis Leary
“I wanted to be a hockey player. Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used. I was terrible in school and actually said, 'I'm going to be a hockey player.'” SaidWantedSchoolUsedPlayerGrewTerribleBasketballGrew UpCourtHockeyHockey PlayerBasketball Court Author:Denis Leary
“You have to be wired a certain way to be a professional basketball player, and the way my body grew, something happened genetically that allowed me to become a lot more explosive.” WayBodyCertainPlayerHappenedGrewBasketballBasketball PlayerExplosives Author:Jeremy Lin
“I grew up in a small town in Illinois, and my dad was a basketball coach. Thanks to him, I have excellent fundamentals in both basketball and baseball.” InspirationalGrewDadBasketballGrew UpBaseballTownsFundamentalsMy DadCoachesThanksExcellentSmall TownBasketball CoachIllinoisThanks To Him Author:Nick Offerman
“I grew up in front of these people, and now they are seeing me as an 'older' young man.” PeopleMenYoungSeeingFrontsGrewBasketballGrew UpYoung Man Author:Kobe Bryant
“I am who I am because of the people who I grew up with and where I'm from.” PeopleGrewBasketballGrew UpWho I AmI Am Who I Am Author:Tim Duncan