I am one of the last true centers in the NBA, and it's a title that I enjoy to hold.
Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
When you're younger, everyone wants to be a point guard. Everyone wants to shoot fadeaway jump shots all day. Nobody wants to be a big man. Nobody wants to go stand on the block and just set picks.
I don't have the five positions anymore. It may be as simple as three positions now, where you're either a ball-handler, a wing or a big.
Marc Gasol, he's more of a true center. There are guys who play that traditional center role, but the game is also played differently now.
The 3-point line has changed the game so much. The day of the big man, unless you're extraordinary good, is not numbered, but certainly you gotta be a lot more versatile to play the game today. You gotta be able to really run up and down the court.
Shaq was a great physical specimen. I mean, 7 foot, 350 pounds. There wasn't anybody like him.
We never give Al Horford the credit he deserves as a modern big.
I used to be a wait-at-the-rim big, more of a Rudy Gobert-type of player.
I'm still the Dun Dada of all big men.
Lacking a dominant big man is a tall order.
Any guard would love playing with a great big man, one who rebounds, blocks shots, and scores.
I know I can block shots and I've got to do it. That's part of my job as a big.
I play basketball. I play center, and if you haven't watched me play, I'm not a regular big man. I can move my feet. Not saying I can stop anyone out there who's in front of me, but trust me: I can really be a problem on the perimeter guarding somebody.
It takes a village to run the Big Man - a village of doctors.
More than anything I prefer the ball on the floor. I think I play my best football on the floor. There is a delicacy to this big giant.
I know he's retired, but I'm a big fan of Shaquille O'Neal, his game and his personality. I have a pair of his shoes in my office. You see the size of his shoe and think, 'This is not real, this couldn't belong to a human being.' But he is human!
I see myself as a pretty mobile big man.
I would love to be the African leader that steps down, that overthrows this idea of a Big Man ruler. I don't want to stay in office forever.
My dad was a big man - six-foot-seven and 300 pounds - and very strong.
My stats speak for themselves; I've got a good touch for a big man, I know I can find the back of the net.
[Richard Leakey is] a robust hero of a man, who actually lives up to the cliché, “a big man in every sense of the word.” Like other big men he is loved by many, feared by some, and not over-preoccupied with the judgments of any.
More and more teams are, in the vernacular, 'going small,' with only one big man down deep. Good grief, the position of power forward is in the process of going the way of short shorts.
When you have a dominant big man, that changes the aspects of the game.
If you've got a big man who scores the ball, you've got to defend, and if you've got a shooter, you've got to pick and choose who you're going to defend.
