Jules Asner Quotes

My mom used to be a basketball player so I was really into it. Plus of course my height made it easier for me to decide what kind of sport I wanted to play, so at the age of nine I went to my first basketball practice.

Men from my tribe in Sudan - the Dinka tribe - are very tall, so you could say I was born to play basketball.

Once I grew from 6'1' to about 6'6', by that time I was going into 12th grade, and that's when I started wanting to play basketball, because, pretty much basketball players always got the girl.

It helps me get rebounds, I can see over the defense pretty easily, and yeah, I thank God he blessed me with height.

If someone had told me at fourteen that I'd be six-ten, I might have stuck with basketball, in all seriousness.

Everybody's like, 'You're tall. You didn't play basketball?' They asked me when I was a freshman in high school, and basketball practice was the same time a lot of stuff happened with choir. And I picked choir, which, normally, people would scratch their heads at, but it worked out okay.

I'm bigger than most two guards.

I've always been the tallest guy in my age group, which always made me go right down in the post.

If I was 6'3'', I'd be playing basketball for sure.

I felt like I was chosen to play basketball when I was younger.

I was a mischievous child. I was also on the tall side.

It's cool to be able to dunk. I'm pretty tall and pretty long. My body's probably built more for basketball than for golf.

I really didn't want to play basketball for the longest time, but I just wouldn't stop growing. But I always wanted to be a professional soccer player.

I mean, I'm 6-foot-11, I've got red hair, freckles, I'm a goofy, nerdy-looking guy, I've got a speech impediment-I stutter and stammer all the time-and I'm a Deadhead.

Being a very tall person, I have always felt a kinship with giraffes.

The first time I played basketball was with my dad and my older brother Thanasis.

I think playing the 5 is an advantage for me. I'm much quicker than a lot of the other centers in our league.

I'm too athletic to play the dunker role at center.

I like a girl who can be a girl but also ready to play basketball.

I grew up, and my body was not like a Spanish player. I was tall. I had a powerful game; my arms were long, so I'm like, 'No, you can't play like Spanish players.'

My 10th grade year I was 6-foot-4 and I grew to like 6-foot-7, but I still had my guard skills. I was playing point guard, I was a big guard. People started calling me 'Penny Hardaway' - comparing me to him because I was a big guard.

It's difficult for a 7-footer to be in the background. But I try to do it as much as I can.

I have big hands - I wear either a XXXL or XXL glove. I have a 6-8 wingspan on a 5-11 body - I can dunk. My wingspan allows me to do a lot of things that other people at my height might not be able to do.

I've got a strong face, a strong body. I'm 5'11.

I think God put me on this earth to play basketball.