Sherman Alexie Quotes About Basketball

Quotes about: Basketball

• Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don't want to play.

  Sherman Alexie

  Basketball, Fear, Mean

• There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons.

  Sherman Alexie

  Inspirational, Basketball, Native American

  "Author Sherman Alexie Talks 'Flight'". Interview with Rebecca Roberts, www.npr.org. April 11, 2007.

• My father was a basketball player, so I loved basketball because he did. It was a direct transference. But, more than that, basketball, in the United States at least, plays the same function that soccer does everyone else in the world. It's the sport of poverty. It's the sport born of poverty. It's the cheapest sport.

  Sherman Alexie

  Basketball, Soccer, Sports

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