Pastoral Resources

Magic Johnson, former basketball player, may run for mayor of LA in the next election. Remember the good 'ol days when only qualified people ran for office like actors and professional wrestlers.

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

My goals have gone from being an all-star to just being able to play basketball. I always took for granted that I could play. Now I know what a gift it is.

I was homecoming queen. I was star of my basketball team.

My life had no meaning at all. I found only brief interludes of satisfaction. It was like my whole life had been about my whole basketball career.

I live in L.A., so I go to basketball games. But I love baseball.

And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5' 11'. So I just picked baseball.

I think the greatest all-around athlete ever was Jim Brown. He played lacrosse, basketball and ran track at Syracuse. He played professional football for the Browns.

I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can.

Every little kid that steps on the court or the field has aspirations to go pro. I think being a pro basketball player is the best job. The thing I had to realize was that I can't do every dream that I have.

Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.

The only reason I went to college was to play basketball. I injured my knee and couldn't play.

In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play.

Yeah, I like cars and basketball. But you know what I like more? Bananas.

In the original script, my character was a basketball player rather than a boxer. I didn't think I could pull that off. I'm a little short to be a basketball player!

The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play 'Drop the Handkerchief.'

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.

My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball.

Basketball isn't as popular in Canada as it is in the US. Hockey is by far the most popular sport in Canada.

Someday I might have to put down a basketball and have a regular 9-to-5 like everybody else.