99 Quotes by Joel Embiid

The first time I watched basketball was in 2010.

I'm not made of glass.

I do like to be shirtless.

I like playing in front of the crowd and get them into it.

I'm competitive, and I think everybody knows that if you're talking trash, you're gonna get a reaction out of me.

I think the concept of minute restrictions is kind of complicated. I don't think there should ever be minute restrictions. I think it should always be about how my body feels and how it's reacting.

Agents recruiting high-school players and talking to high-schoolers - I feel like those are the people who put bad ideas in kids.

My very first scrimmage at Kansas, I got dunked on so hard by Tarik Black that I almost quit. Tarik dunked on me so hard that I was looking at plane tickets home. This guy was a senior. He was a grown man. I didn't know what was going on. He got his own rebound and dunked over me so hard that everything went in slow motion.

When I started playing ball as a junior, I'm kind of glad that I was never good enough to be highly recruited.