A Quote by Luol Deng

I grew up in Brixton as a young teenager playing basketball for the Brixton Topcats, which marked the beginning of my career.

Luol Deng

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Luol Deng
American - Athlete
Born: April 16, 1985

I coached a team in Brixton - Brixton United - for a while. We won two cups. They are a good team, but I only coached. No playing.

Edgar Davids

When I was growing up, David Bowie was my idol. I grew up in inner-city London, and he was from Brixton, which is even more urban.

Edward Enninful

I was born in London 1947, after the war. A real wartime baby. I went to school in Brixton, and then I moved up to Yorkshire, which is in the north of England. I lived on the farms up there.

David Bowie

I come from Lambeth, Brixton.

Big Narstie

The Brixton rap scene is big - there are plenty of people to work with - but at the same time, I did find myself getting caught up in weird stuff.

Jax Jones

I'm accustomed to playing basketball really rough. When I came into the league, I was used to fighting on the court. That's how I grew up playing basketball.

Metta World Peace

I won a scholarship with the Brixton School of Building. I screwed around, not putting in a proper attendance.

Ronald Biggs

Floating the idea that every kid in Brixton can become a whizkid at information technology is dishonest.

David Starkey

I love basketball and I love playing it, but there will be a stage in my career when I have to hang the basketball boots up, which is why I'm more than happy to have my culture with me.

Patty Mills

I like the dirty venues better - Brixton Jams is like home.

Rag'n'Bone Man

I left Jamaica to come to England, but one place became another place. I lived in Tulse Hill, in Brixton and Coldharbour Lane.

Dillian Whyte

I used to be a Peckham boy, we used to have ghetto boys or maybe like Brixton. And sometimes we'd hear about the greasiest ones but we'd never have seen them before.

Giggs

Seeing them all on Twitter, see it happening at shows, audiences getting bigger. I can't believe I'm doing Brixton. But it's all happened organically, that's why I love it. I've never been a beggar, and I don't think I've begged it at all.

Thomas Grennan

Starting out, when I was on pirate radio, or even around 2005 when I was supporting Mike Skinner at Brixton Academy, I never really saw myself being able to play my own show there.

Kano

My great-grandmother was born in London, the daughter of a Brixton coachman, and became the most famous singer in Australia. Her name was Marie Carandini, Madame Carandini.

Christopher Lee

I had wanted to write English crime novels based on the American hard-boiled style, and for the first two novels about Brixton, the critics didn't actually know I was Irish.

Ken Bruen

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