“It was a great place to grow up. There were always kids around in our neighborhood. We had a basketball hoop in the back of our house, a little front yard where you could get touch football games going. I know you think of it as a big city, but it was fun for me to grow up in New Orleans. I remember it as a very normal childhood.” ThinkingKnowsLittlesBigsKidsRememberGamesHouseFunGrowsCitiesGrowing UpChildhoodFrontsFootballBasketballNormalNeighborhoodYardsNew OrleansFootball GameBig CitiesTouch Football Author:Eli Manning
“A writer from ESPN magazine once described me as the world's largest eleven-year-old. That's true. I ride my Sea-Doo jet ski, play putt-putt golf, go to water parks, and act silly. On the bottom floor of my house in Beverly Hills, I have video games, a pool table, a Pepsi machine, and all the things they have in arcades. I drive go-karts, at least the ones I can fit in. I karate-chop my friends when they come over, like the Kato dude in the Pink Panther movies.” WorldYearsI CanPlayGamesHouseWaterSeaFitBasketballMy FriendsMachinesTablesGolfBottomSillyVideoMagazinesHillsParksPoolElevenJetKarateSkisPanthersBeverly HillsPepsiEspnArcadesPink PantherPool Table Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“It's not like being a professional basketball player where you're in a big house. Maybe three, four or five guys make a couple million bucks a year, but that's it. The rest of them have second jobs.” YearsBigsJobsGuyThreeHouseMillionsFiveFourPlayerCoupleBasketballBucksBasketball PlayerBig Houses Author:Frank Grillo
“I wanted a NBA basketball gym at my house and that's what I worked hard for and I was able to achieve that.” InspirationalHardAbleWantedHouseAchieveBasketballNbaGym Author:Terrell Owens
“The ability to rebound is in inverse proportion to the distance your house is from the nearest railroad tracks.” HouseAbilityBasketballDistanceTrackCoachingProportionBasketball CoachingRailroadsReboundInverseRailroad Tracks Author:Don Meyer
“It's kinda great to see the Celtics doin well again cuz that was so much fun in my day to go to the Boston Garden and they spit at you and throw things at you and talk about your mom. It sounds like dinner at Kenny Smith's house.” WellsHouseFunSoundMomBasketballGardenDinnerBostonSpitYour MomCuzKenny Author:Charles Barkley