Author Profile
Bam Adebayo
1997 • American Basketball • Player
60
Total Quotes
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Showing 60 quotesI understand that we want to be in the middle of protests with our bodies and we want people to know that we're there supporting Black Lives Matter, which I'm 100 percent about. And I'm 100 percent about going to the bubble and doing it on national television where everybody sees it.— Bam Adebayo
I can't dictate how I play because I'm injured. I've got to go out there and still play.— Bam Adebayo
You just gotta hang around people that are really outgoing, and you'll end up, before you know it, you'll be an outgoing person.— Bam Adebayo
I feel like I'm trying to change basketball; being a center, being able to play both sides of the ball and being able to pass as well as I can, that's a difference-maker on a team, especially at the center spot, so it's respect at all levels.— Bam Adebayo
I'm an African-American man. I've got to live with that. I've got to be cautious everywhere I go.— Bam Adebayo
Imagine if a mob of Black people wanted to go in the White House. Imagine what'd happen. It'd be tear gas. It'd be rubber bullets. It'd be the whole nine yards.— Bam Adebayo
Like I said, being an African-American man, you can tell there's two Americas we're living in. They don't want us to be equal.— Bam Adebayo
That's the thing about basketball - you do good things and you start to get recognition.— Bam Adebayo
It was kind of like an agreement, I guess you can say. It was like, 'Hey, bro, you want to be on Team USA?' And I was like, 'Yeah.' Who would say no to that? It was kind of like, 'Dang, I really get to play for my country. I get to represent and just go out there and have fun.'— Bam Adebayo
It doesn't matter if it's Spencer Dinwiddie, Taurean Prince, DeAndre Jordan, I'm trying to win that matchup every time.— Bam Adebayo
Some guys, when they get drafted, they only think about themselves. They go buy cars and houses. I just wanted to take care of my mom.— Bam Adebayo
Growing up, it was just me and my mom. I watched her struggle for 17 years, and when I was 19, I got a chance to pay off all of her debt after two paychecks. That's a crazy feeling.— Bam Adebayo
If I have friends in town visiting, we'll go get dinner, but if I'm just by myself, I'm at the house, watching random TV shows.— Bam Adebayo
Where I'm from, in the middle of the country, there were no clubs or parties. You had to make your own fun.— Bam Adebayo