A Quote by Scottie Pippen
When I was growing up, I never thought I would play in the NBA.
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I thought, 'I'm going to play in Yugoslavia, then I'll go to play in Italy or Spain.' Then I'll be 28 or 29 and I'll try NBA. I never thought I can play in NBA because NBA was totally different world for us in Europe.
Growing up it was always a dream. I just always thought as long as I worked hard that someone would take a look at me and know I could play in the NBA.
As a kid growing up in Canton, Ohio, you never see yourself in a position to play in the NBA, much less have somebody pay you to wear shoes.
I'd read about NBA players in magazines when I was growing up in Congo, but I had never actually seen what NBA basketball looked like because we didn't have access to a satellite for TV.
I'm not trying to be like what I thought an NBA player is supposed to be growing up.
It's a luxury to play. I get to play basketball for a living. I'm a lucky guy and I'm thankful for everything I have and what I get to do. I realize how many people would give their left foot to just play one game in the NBA. This is the NBA!
Nobody thought that I was going to make it to the NBA. I only had a couple of believers growing up.
I didn't have cable growing up. The only games I saw were the NBA on Sundays and the NBA Finals.
Ever since I was growing up, I knew I was going to play in the NFL. I never thought anything else.
When I was growing up my parents never thought I would be an actor.
Growing up, my first interview when I was 14, I said, 'Yeah, I'm going to play in the NBA.' Everybody was like, 'Who is this kid? He is cocky.'
Growing up, all I did was play sports. I always loved music, but I never even thought I'd be on stage one day.
When the kids were growing up, I think they thought the worst thing about me being a mom is that I would laugh at them. They would say something that they thought was serious and intense and I would laugh. I thought it was funny, but they don't want to be laughed at.
Growing up, I always dreamed of winning an NBA championship, never a gold. A gold was something that never crossed my mind.
It was never a case of male and female when I was growing up. I played with my cousins, my friends. From a young age, I played on the local streets, just with my neighbours. The majority would be boys, but a couple would be girls, so I never really thought too hard about it.
I've never thought that I would see any man of color, not just a black president, but any man of color, I never thought that I would live to see that. I thought maybe my grandchildren would, but I never thought I would. So when Barack Obama first started to run I was like, "I've never heard of this guy - he probably doesn't have a shot." But then he started picking up steam and that piqued my interest.
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