You have so much fun playing games. We all love basketball, so we never want the season to end, 'cause then it's five months of sitting around and watching the playoffs.
Interpretation
The joy of playing basketball brings happiness and anticipation, making the off-season difficult to bear.
In this quote, Stephen Curry expresses the deep enjoyment and passion for playing basketball, emphasizing how the love for the game creates a longing for the season to continue. He highlights the contrast between the excitement of playing and the downtime during the off-season, illustrating how much fun and fulfillment sports can bring to individuals and communities.
In practice
Use this quote at a sports team gathering to inspire team spirit.
I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He's given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball's taught me on and off the court. For the people that I've been able to meet through the game of basketball.
Sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or a crazy life story in order to be successful in this world. But the truth is you really don't.
I try to make it look easy, but the behind-the-scenes stuff is the challenge.
I have fun out there on the court, smiling, laughing, trying to have good demeanor.
It's really annoying for me. That's not what I'm playing for, to be the face of the NBA or to be this or that or to take LeBron's throne or whatever.
I just feel so much more comfortable and confident every game I play.
Men are that they might have joy . . . not guilt trips.
What can you do if you are thirty and, turning the corner of your own street, you are overcome, suddenly, by a feeling of bliss - absolute bliss - as though you'd suddenly swallowed a bright piece of that late afternoon sun and it burned in your bosom, sending out a little shower of sparks into every particle into every finger and toe?
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.
I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
Things which provide deep and lasting happiness and gratitude are the things which money cannot buy: our families, the gospel, good friends, our health, our abilities, the love we receive from those around us.
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