139 Quotes by Luol Deng

Manute Bol taught my family the game of basketball.

Because I was the youngest boy, I was always my mom's favorite - and my brothers were always tough on me.

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 was just a lanky kid, just tall.

It's not easy not to play.

No matter what I do for the rest of my career, I think I'll always be a Bulls guy.

At some point, when I was in Chicago for maybe eight years, I never thought I would leave Chicago. I wish it would have happened that way, but everything happens for a reason.

When I look back at 19, coming here to Chicago, some of the things that were said, some of the stuff that you deal with - at 19 years old, it's a lot of pressure.

You always - as a basketball player, as a competitor - that's where you speak most: on the court.