What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.

If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.

I always wanted to be a basketball player.

I always wanted to be a basketball player. Nothing more, nothing less.

A football player is often bigger than a basketball player - more massive, that is. The basketball player is taller and more slender. So it is with redwoods. The tallest redwoods are often slender, and so they aren't the largest ones.

He's part basketball player, part acrobat.