Antonio Gates famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Play more than one sport in high school. If you play, say, football and basketball, you can learn to be physical and you can take those physical aspects of both sports and become better in both sports. Basketball players use some of the same skills football players do and vice versa.
-- Antonio Gates

#Basketball #Sports #Football
I'd like to be a 5-10, 205-pound running back. I think it's natural for big guys to want to be a little faster.
-- Antonio Gates

#Running #Thinking #Guy
You had to be tough in our neighborhood.
-- Antonio Gates

#Tough #Neighborhood
I try to find out what the guy's strengths and weaknesses are. Like in boxing, I'd be a counter-puncher. Whatever he does well, I try to take advantage of what he doesn't do well.
-- Antonio Gates

#Boxing #Guy #Trying
In basketball, I always had a first step. A separation step. That works now, too.
-- Antonio Gates

#Basketball #Firsts #Steps
If I had stayed with football in college, I probably would have been a first-round pick.
-- Antonio Gates

#Football #College #Firsts
High school football in Detroit was not easy at all. There were talented players everywhere.
-- Antonio Gates

#Football #School #Player
In high school, every last one of the passing schemes was designed for me.
-- Antonio Gates

#School #Lasts #Passing
A dunk is nice because it can create momentum, but it's not as good as scoring a touchdown.
-- Antonio Gates

#Nice #Momentum #Touchdowns

Basketball is my favorite sport, and I'm also a very passionate football fan.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Your defense will save you on the nights that your offense isn't working.
If they don't let me coach, they might as well take me to the Lexington cemetery.
He who controlleth the backboard, controlleth the game.
Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.
We're never as good as we think we are, nor as bad as we think we are.
I wouldn't give one iota to make a trip from the cradle to the grave unless I could live in a competitive world.
Everybody is entitled to believe. Churches have exactly the same right to exist as a football club, a trade union or a political party. But if you and I set up the Church of the Fairies of the Garden, then I don't think we should automatically be meeting the queen, be entitled to seats in the House of Lords or get public money for our fairy schools.
I run angry. Football allows me to take out some of my pain on the field.

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