I love sports. I've played basketball, baseball, soccer, tennis, track and field growing up.

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I'm a great sports fan, you know. I love to watch tennis and basketball and baseball and so on.
ITZHAK PERLMAN

I started playing baseball and soccer. Those were my sports on the streets and in school when I was ...
EARL MONROE I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time...
GABRIELLE UNION

I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards.
YANI TSENG I love all sports! I'm always impressed by athletes. I also love watching the Olympic Games. In ...
OLGA FONDA

I was a Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan fan growing up.
LEBRON JAMES I'm truly passionate about basketball. I'm not as passionate about baseball as I am about ba...
PATRICK SOON-SHIONG I moved from Florida when I was younger, and sports, especially basketball, were a good way to make ...
ART LINARES Baseball is like cricket, and I grew up in a country where they had cricket. So I understand cricket...
PATRICK SOON-SHIONG

When you think about basketball, and you watch someone like Michael Jordan play basketball - even if...
KIMBAL MUSK

Track and field was very big when I was growing up.
USAIN BOLT I played tennis and softball, and we had horses, growing up.
BETH RIESGRAF

Michael Jordan was a tremendous basketball player.
LEE TREVINO This is like a skeptical sports reviewer focusing on Michael Jordan's few air balls and fouls, and d...
GARY SCHWARTZ In America, we have three major sports - baseball, football and basketball. They get the most covera...
MAURICE GREENE

I'm a sports-watcher. I played football and baseball, coached baseball. So I watch those things.
PHIL JACKSON If you played basketball growing up, you learn the importance of follow-through when you shoot: form...
ROWAN RICARDO PHILLIPS I've played soccer since I was five.
CAMERON BRIGHT

I played basketball, baseball, and football. I never had much downtime. But I think playing multiple...
GIANCARLO STANTON

I love watching gymnastics, swimming, and track and field.
MIA HAMM As a child, I always said I was going to be a professional basketball player like Michael Jordan.
ISRAEL IDONIJE

I grew up an athlete. Track and field and dance. In track, I actually went to the Junior Olympics. I...
KIMBERLY ELISE I played softball for a few years growing up. Both my brothers played baseball.
MAGGIE LAWSON I would say I was into two sports as a kid: basketball and baseball.
ADAM SILVER

Michael B. Jordan is actually cool. He's like the homie. I'm actually talking to him. He rea...
BRYSON TILLER I've been a big fan of Michael Showalter's for a long time. I watched 'Stella' growi...
ALIA SHAWKAT

I grew up in Chicago, and I understand what Michael Jordan symbolizes.
DWYANE WADE I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a differen...
CAM GIGANDET

I've seen the growth of this game in this country, the stadiums that were built, the great Europ...
DAVID BECKHAM I played baseball growing up, second base, and then when I got to high school,it just didn't exi...
FINN WITTROCK My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I su...
JULIET MILLS

I am saying 40% of people in sports are still using performance (enhancing drugs). I think that base...
BEN JOHNSON I feel like it's my sports arena. I play basketball and baseball and competitive sports, but I feel ...
JUSTIN PENTICUFF I ran track. I ran cross country. But I did not play organized basketball in high school, at least o...
ADAM SILVER I've played sports and been active my whole life.
WARREN CHRISTIE

I played a ton of team sports growing up, and team wins are just incredibly gratifying.
JASON BATEMAN Yeah, I've played a lot of instruments, and I played in a lot of bands growing up, and I've ...
ALESSANDRO NIVOLA

I come from a family that has always emphasized and enjoyed sports - golf, tennis, football, basebal...
ROBERT KENNEDY

Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. ...
VIN SCULLY

I love watching track and field - the 4x100 relay, the 100-(meter) dash, the 200-(meter) dash. To se...
LEBRON JAMES A lot of kids have track or baseball or are sports-oriented. They just love music.
JACKIE CULLEN My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball.
STEVE NASH

I don't feel I could've played major league baseball.
JIM BROWN Francois is to classical music what Michael Jordan was to basketball. Nobody else does what he does....
HANS STURM

As a lad growing up in the Fifties and Sixties, I played both Gaelic football and soccer and loved t...
MARTIN MCGUINNESS

Sports have always been a big part of my life. At school, I played a lot of different sports, and I ...
IZABEL GOULART I danced for 12 years, and I played a lot team sports: basketball, volleyball.
GAL GADOT

Competing in both track and field and basketball for the Bruins I have a lot of great memories to ch...
JACKIE JOYNER-KERSEE

Growing up, I looked up to major league baseball players, and now these young women have amazing, in...
JENNIE FINCH My wife says the word fan is short for fanatic. But it's just that I love basketball and baseball, s...
CHRIS MITCHELL Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs ...
IAN BOTHAM I was a ballplayer, but only for a limited time. I grew up playing in Wisconsin. It's a very spo...
CHAD HARBACH I remember wearing the big oversized baseball and basketball jerseys and Timbaland boots. I was a to...
DREW SIDORA I played football first. I love football. I'm a die-hard Broncos fan. I loved football, but in t...
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I'm on the warpath for athletes from summer football conditioning all the way into the spring. I tal...
DAN FULLER I played Little League baseball, but I also played basketball. Basketball was my primary sport. When...
CHADWICK BOSEMAN I tried all kinds of sports when I was a kid, like soccer and tennis and golf, and, in fact, started...
PATRICK CHAN I didn't do that well in school, although I was voted "The Biggest Flirt." I played sports I was on ...
LUKE PERRY I can play basketball, run track, and play volleyball, so yeah, I've always been an athlete at h...
VIVICA A. FOX I love sports. When I'm not playing, I'm watching, reading, or otherwise obsessing about the...
MARK WATERS I thought he was Michael Jordan,
SAMMY SOSA I'm right up there with Michael Jordan.
DAMON ALLEN For example, Michael Jordan earns $100million a year but continues to play basketball and remains a ...
FRANZ BECKENBAUER

I've got four brothers, so with them and all our friends we had these sports parties in the base...
ROB GRONKOWSKI

I would never tell anybody to give up hockey - the great sports we have here - basketball, lacrosse ...
GEORGE VECSEY I love to play baseball. I'm a baseball player. I've always been a baseball player. I'm ...
RYNE SANDBERG I played with Mickey Wright and I played with Kathy Whitworth. Putting Annika with those two is like...
DONNA CAPONI

I could've played basketball, but my mind was on baseball. I didn't know what I was in for. ...
ERIC DAVIS I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball ...
DANIEL CORMIER I've played a baseball player a few times, but in my career I've been blessed to have played...
DANIEL SUNJATA All we see is football, baseball, soccer, but no basketball. We need to get some trophies of our own...
CHARLES HARPER

When I was younger, I used to bite my nails so bad. I used to play sports; I played, like, every spo...
KENDALL JENNER

There's only one Michael Jordan.
MICHAEL JORDAN Just imagine what would have happened if Michael Jordan quit after getting cut from his High School ...
JOHNA PASSARO I played volleyball, basketball, softball, and I started to love soccer the most around 7-8 years ol...
ALEX MORGAN I love tennis. I've played it my whole life. Loved it since the age of three. I had an injury, s...
DAVID WALTON

The real, many-veiled answer to the question of just what goes through a great player's mind as he s...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE I've done literally everything there is to do on a baseball field as a pitcher.
DREW POMERANZ Involvement in my kids' sports teams is something I have made time for over the years. I've ...
THOMAS E. PEREZ

Involvement in my kids' sports teams is something I have made time for over the years. I've ...
THOMAS PEREZ

Sports formed me. I was always decently skilled but lacked size, so I had to resort to using my skil...
ZACH JOHNSON Team sports, there's always some kind of sacrifice happening... A team, if we lose, if Michael J...
MARC BLUCAS

I went to Moorehouse College. There was no track and field there.
EDWIN MOSES Growing up, my parents always played artists like Alanis Morissette, Aerosmith and Michael Jackson, ...
MANIKA

Growing up, I looked up to major league baseball players, and now these young women have amazing, in...
JENNIE FINCH I live in L.A., so I go to basketball games. But I love baseball.
PENNY MARSHALL I love soccer. My father is from Argentina and my mother is from El Salvador. I grew up watching Arg...
J. D. PARDO If a director brings a guy to their movie who does improv, they've got to let him do what he doe...
J. B. SMOOVE

I don't want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant.
KOBE BRYANT I played softball and basketball growing up. I really wanted to play football but both parents said ...
JORDIN SPARKS I did everything in high school - I played tennis, I played basketball, I was in chorus, I was in th...
ELIJAH KELLEY At the restart, Michael and I were trying to overtake a Jordan ,
TAKUMA SATO

I grew up in New York City, where we played highly unorganized sports: stick ball, stoop ball, and t...
JEFF GREENFIELD

I love that woman. She's like a great athlete, like Tiger Woods or Michael Jordan. They make it look...
CAMERON DIAZ

I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or b...
BO JACKSON

I love track and field, but I also know the day will come when I will have to do something else.
JACKIE JOYNER-KERSEE When I got injured, I think I was starting to sense that there was more to the world than just sport...
ERIC SWALWELL The greatest players use anger as fuel. Michael Jordan played every night with something like road r...
J. R. MOEHRINGER One of the biggest things that people say is that kids love football, they love baseball, they love ...
LARRY MACDONALD

I play a lot of sports. I played football for 12 years, I like tennis, I surf, I snowboard, and I sk...
CAROLINE WINBERG

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Definitely, as I get older and my taste buds change, I want to do different things. I'm not read...
MICHAEL B. JORDAN You start at a young age, going on auditions, and you think you did a good job and expect to get tha...
MICHAEL B. JORDAN I was born in Orange County - in Santa Ana. My dad is from California. I was raised on the East Coas...
MICHAEL B. JORDAN Honestly, I want to do films. I want to make that move from actor to producer, like Will Smith.
MICHAEL B. JORDAN Don't pretend to know everything. I've been blessed to work with a lot of veteran actors, an...
MICHAEL B. JORDAN I'm a tropical weather cruiser. I like surfing, you know. I like being on the beach.
MICHAEL B. JORDAN

I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and...
MICHAEL JORDAN

It's absolutely wrong that I don't want guys to challenge me. And the people who say that ar...
MICHAEL JORDAN

Do I need my number retired throughout the course of the league to acknowledge what I've done? N...
MICHAEL JORDAN

I've never been afraid to fail.
MICHAEL JORDAN

There is no 'i' in team but there is in win.
MICHAEL JORDAN

To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest...
MICHAEL JORDAN

We all fly. Once you leave the ground, you fly. Some people fly longer than others.
MICHAEL JORDAN

The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and pea...
MICHAEL JORDAN

When I was young, I had to learn the fundamentals of basketball. You can have all the physical abili...
MICHAEL JORDAN

My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.
MICHAEL JORDAN

I never thought a role model should be negative.
MICHAEL JORDAN

I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish.
MICHAEL JORDAN

The game is my life. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and pea...
MICHAEL JORDAN

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But ob...
MICHAEL JORDAN

To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest...
MICHAEL JORDAN

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
MICHAEL JORDAN

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trust...
MICHAEL JORDAN

I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don't do things half-hear...
MICHAEL JORDAN

I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying.
MICHAEL JORDAN

There are plenty of teams in every sport that have great players andnever win titles. Most of the ti...
MICHAEL JORDAN

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.
MICHAEL JORDAN

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them...
MICHAEL JORDAN

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
MICHAEL JORDAN

The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone whe...
MICHAEL JORDAN

My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn ...
MICHAEL JORDAN

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
MICHAEL JORDAN

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I'v...
MICHAEL JORDAN

You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go ...
MICHAEL JORDAN

When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that...
MICHAEL JORDAN

Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.
MICHAEL JORDAN

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
MICHAEL JORDAN

I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of...
MICHAEL JORDAN

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.
MICHAEL JORDAN

Limits, like fear, is often an illusion.
MICHAEL JORDAN

My father used to say that it's never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said, ...
MICHAEL JORDAN

Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night.
MICHAEL JORDAN

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the o...
MICHAEL JORDAN

In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I've been given the ch...
MICHAEL JORDAN

Ultimately, if you can say that I'm a bad owner and we're winning championships, I can live ...
MICHAEL JORDAN

Winning isn't always championships.
MICHAEL JORDAN

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Fig...
MICHAEL JORDAN

My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.
MICHAEL JORDAN

Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the...
MICHAEL JORDAN

When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it'...
MICHAEL JORDAN

There is no such thing as a perfect basketball player, and I don't believe there is only one gre...
MICHAEL JORDAN

The game has its ups and downs, but you can never lose focus of your individual goals and you can...
MICHAEL JORDAN

I can't speak for the future. I have no crystal ball.
MICHAEL JORDAN

I want people to understand, gambling is not a bad thing if you do it within the framework of what i...
MICHAEL JORDAN

Gambling is legal and betting is legal, for what I bet.
MICHAEL JORDAN

I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.
MICHAEL JORDAN

Purchasing the Bobcats is the culmination of my post-playing career goal of becoming the majority ow...
MICHAEL JORDAN

My body could stand the crutches but my mind couldn't stand the sideline.
MICHAEL JORDAN

My challenge when I came back was to face the young talent, dissect their games, and show them maybe...
MICHAEL JORDAN

As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' Th...
MICHAEL JORDAN

If you quit ONCE it becomes a habit.Never quit!!!
MICHAEL JORDAN

I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me. . .Failure always made me t...
MICHAEL JORDAN

I have failed many times, and that's why I am a success.
MICHAEL JORDAN

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.
MICHAEL JORDAN

I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences yo...
MICHAEL JORDAN

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.
MICHAEL JORDAN

It's heavy duty to try to do everything and please everybody . . . My job was to go out there and pl...
MICHAEL JORDAN

I want to be perceived as a guy who played his best in all facets, not just scoring. A guy who loved...
MICHAEL JORDAN

I believe greatness is an evolutionary process that changes and evolves era to era.
MICHAEL JORDAN

When I step onto the court, I don't have to think about anything. If I have a problem off the court,...
MICHAEL JORDAN

The good part about being famous is being able to help people. The hard part is every day you have t...
MICHAEL JORDAN

It's hard to say if the NBA is hurt by the influx of younger players, but it's definitely im...
MICHAEL JORDAN

You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.
MICHAEL JORDAN

It's a habit of mine now, noticing labels, logos, shoes.
MICHAEL JORDAN

There's only one Michael Jordan.
MICHAEL JORDAN

Being Michael Jordan means acting the same as I always have.
MICHAEL JORDAN

There are plenty of teams in every sport that have great players and
never win titles. Most of t...
MICHAEL JORDAN

Jeff Malone was one of the toughest guys I played against during my career,
MICHAEL JORDAN

I didn't have to [start playing again]. But I did it with the benefit of trying to help an organizat...
MICHAEL JORDAN

I've gotten myself into [gambling] situations where I would not walk away and I've pushed the envelo...
MICHAEL JORDAN

one of the finest media companies in the world.
MICHAEL JORDAN

The way I've been playing, I should be down, way down,
MICHAEL JORDAN

The way I've been playing, I should be down, way down. I haven't done anything to think I should be ...
MICHAEL JORDAN

[The city told him it was not their responsibility] even though it's their property, ... They said, ...
MICHAEL JORDAN

It's in a really good place now,
MICHAEL JORDAN

All we can do [to come back from this loss] is work hard in practice. We have a game against [Archbi...
MICHAEL JORDAN

I don't want to use it as an excuse, but the wisdom tooth started weakening me in the second half.
MICHAEL JORDAN

A lot of people stepped up, made some sacrifices and helped out (the Katrina victims). But man, the ...
MICHAEL JORDAN

We filed the complaint to protect the interests of our users.
MICHAEL JORDAN

Over the next two years, we'll see a lot of change,
MICHAEL JORDAN

We have made real progress in turning around the network performance.
MICHAEL JORDAN

I want to go out on a limb and win, and sometimes that can take you past the stage where ... you kno...
MICHAEL JORDAN

I was very impressed, ... Technology is really amazing. I was just happy to be a part of it.
MICHAEL JORDAN

This is my livelihood, ... And with no help from the city...it's been hell.
MICHAEL JORDAN

'I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I h...
MICHAEL JORDAN

Live the moment for the moment.
MICHAEL JORDAN

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
MICHAEL JORDAN

She agrees to marry him,
MICHAEL JORDAN

I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me . . . Failure always made me...
MICHAEL JORDAN

But my drive to win is so great ... I just step over that line. ... It's very embarrassing, ... one ...
MICHAEL JORDAN

One day, you might look up and see me playing the game at 50. Don't laugh. Never say never, beca...
MICHAEL JORDAN

They may watch more than those guys on the Bulls did.
MICHAEL JORDAN

How many times have your parents told you not to do things, and the next thing you know, you go do i...
MICHAEL JORDAN

Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion
MICHAEL JORDAN

I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot . . . when you think about the consequences...
MICHAEL JORDAN

I'm sorry to see it end,
MICHAEL JORDAN

The Hip Hop Professor.
MICHAEL JORDAN

There is no "i" in team but there is in win
MICHAEL JORDAN

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
MICHAEL JORDAN

[Meat rates high as a] must-have. ... but he'll eat anything.
MICHAEL JORDAN

It's a real shot in the arm every time he comes into the game, ... He gets us into our offense, he d...
MICHAEL JORDAN

The premiere was very early in the 20th century. The opera is unique in that it presents a different...
MICHAEL JORDAN

If I was on the other side, there's no way I would have been in at the end of that game without six ...
MICHAEL JORDAN

I saw firsthand the interest in basketball over there, and it made me reconsider. Nothing is final, ...
MICHAEL JORDAN

We had felt that a merger with another consulting firm might create a stronger entity, ... That turn...
MICHAEL JORDAN

I don't want this to feel like a funeral.
MICHAEL JORDAN

[Jordan, 42, said he could still make a contribution to an NBA team.] Even though, physically, I can...
MICHAEL JORDAN

As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of d...
MICHAEL JORDAN

I've never been afraid to fail.
MICHAEL JORDAN

Even when I'm old and grey, I won't be able to play it, but I'll still love the game.
MICHAEL JORDAN

My body could stand the crutches but my mind couldn't stand the sideline.
MICHAEL JORDAN

I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.
MICHAEL JORDAN

I am hooked. Next year, I am looking to expand the team, looking to compete. I want to win.
MICHAEL JORDAN

They should have never made that call, ... They complained about the refs all year.
MICHAEL JORDAN

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out ...
MICHAEL JORDAN

I'm not a Twitterer, I'm not a twerker, I'm not a Facebooker, I'm not nothing. I'...
MICHAEL JORDAN

I want to wake up every day and do whatever comes in my mind, and not feel pressure or obligations t...
MICHAEL JORDAN

I'd like to be settled into somewhat of a normal life. Somewhat. I know it's never going to ...
MICHAEL JORDAN

Don't let them drag you down by rumors just go with what you believe in.
MICHAEL JORDAN

I've never lost a game I just ran out of time.
MICHAEL JORDAN

I'm not out there sweating for three hours every day just to find out what it feels like to swea...
MICHAEL JORDAN

I realize im black, but id like to be viewed as a person, and that is everybodys wish.
MICHAEL JORDAN

I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
B. B. KING

I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided ...
B. B. KING

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on ...
B. B. KING

I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown o...
B. B. KING

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high sc...
B. B. KING

Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: A...
B. B. KING

I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are Go...
B. B. KING

The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit asha...
B. B. KING

My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I w...
B. B. KING

Sometimes I just think that there are more things to be said to make the audience understand what I&...
B. B. KING

I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, b...
B. B. KING

Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you...
B. B. KING

Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
B. B. KING

I never wanted to be like other blues singers. I might like hearing them play, but I've never wa...
B. B. KING

Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's...
B. B. KING

I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.
B. B. KING

The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
B. B. KING

Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
B. B. KING

If my fans want to do something for me when that time comes, I say, don't waste your money on me...
B. B. KING

Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.
B. B. KING

People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never di...
B. B. KING

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
B. B. KING

I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
B. B. KING

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. Wh...
B. B. KING

If criticism has made such discoveries as to necessitate the abandonment of the doctrine of plenary ...
B. B. WARFIELD

I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I u...
B. B. KING

Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
B. B. KING

I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Er...
B. B. KING

I almost chopped my thumb off once. Just before I left home, I was about ten or eleven years old, an...
B. B. KING

I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never th...
B. B. KING

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
B. B. KING

When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are...
B. B. KING

I used to play - when I first started trying to be professional, I disk jockey from 1949 to 1955 in ...
B. B. KING

I was a singing disc jockey who heard every type of music there was - and loved it all.
B. B. KING

'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thoug...
B. B. KING

If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything ...
B. B. KING

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie [Ray Vaughan] missed on bo...
B. B. KING

When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it'll happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on sta...
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I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, g...
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I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music...
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My wife Martha used to call me Ol' Lemon Face because of my facial contortions when I play Lucil...
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I tell my children now that they are older, 'If something happens to me... don't make no big...
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I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played,...
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The minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
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I love sports. I've played basketball, baseball, soccer, tennis, track and field growing up.

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I love sports. I've played basketball, baseball, soccer, tennis, track and field growing up.

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