I played sports year around: basketball soccer softball and I ran track year around from the time I was like six seven.

I like sports and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.

If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.

You don't play against opponents you play against the game of basketball.

When I was growing up we used to play basketball in a park that was never shoveled when it snowed. The basketball rims were never fixed. And we understood then that there was a relationship between public policy and our quality of life.

I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way they played the teamwork the sacrifice the commitment the joy the camaraderie the relationship with the fans.

I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place.

Poetry isn't a profession it's a way of life. It's an empty basket you put your life into it and make something out of that.