Allan Houston Quotes

• You know what I like to do? I love waking up early, making them breakfast, taking them to school, having time in the morning with them. With six kids, it’s like a reality show.

  Allan Houston

• What you do on the court, off the court, in the classroom, it’s all the same. Your habits, the way you treat class, your relationships – it’s all the same. Do it right or don’t do it.

  Allan Houston

• We don’t want to put a band-aid on our problems that we keep talking about in society; we want to get down to the nitty gritty and do some surgery.

  Allan Houston

• There are so many issues in society – we talk about the violence, the drugs, the unwanted pregnancies – but at the end of the day, it comes down to what we taught our children to be.

  Allan Houston

• There are so many guys that come up and have strong hearts, but they just have to understand what the consequences are and how to execute the things that they learned to make themselves successful.

  Allan Houston

• The more consistent a father can be or a mentor can be in the person’s life and teach them principles of real solid manhood, character, integrity and leadership, the more consistent you can be in the person’s life and teach them those things at a younger age, and then the better off they’ll be.

  Allan Houston

• Success isn’t always going to be a huge contract; success is going to be if you just live out your purpose in life.

  Allan Houston

• Seven years ago, my father and I realized that our relationship was extremely unique, especially in the African-American community. He raised me to not only understand the fundamentals of basketball and to try to be a player with a high basketball IQ, but he wanted me to understand that my image and my name meant more than stats.

  Allan Houston

• If it had been what was supposed to happen, it would have happened.

  Allan Houston

• First of all, as a man the most important thing you have in your life now is your child that you’re carrying. That’s it. Everything else comes second; personally, for me, other than your relationship with God and your wife.

  Allan Houston

• Every NBA player, every athlete, I think once you get to this level in life, whether you have kids or you’re about to have kids, understands that this is so much bigger than this sport.

  Allan Houston

Allan Houston (11)

Birth:	20th April, 1971
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Basketball Player

About

Allan Wade Houston was born in Louisville, Kentucky. He is a retired American professional basketball player for the NBA, and currently the Assistant General Manager for the New York Knicks and the Erie BayHawks General Manager. He was one of the top 3-point shooters in the NBA until a knee injury forced him to retire. Houston also currently spends his time helping different charity and non-profit organizations. He went on to play at the University of Tennessee and graduated in 1993 as the school's all-time leading scorer, and is currently second to Chris Lofton at Tennessee for three-point field goals made. Houston is a member of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity. On March 6, 2011 the University of Tennessee retired Houston's number during halftime ceremonies at a Tennessee-Kentucky game. Houston was selected in the first round by the Detroit Pistons in the 1993 NBA Draft, and averaged 8.5 points per game in his rookie year. His average increased to 14.5 and 19.7 points per game in the next two years.

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• 1952 - Lorna Luft
• 1929 - Marilyn French
• 1958 - Rickson Gracie
• 1963 - Nicollette Sheridan

Deaths

• 1926 - Joseph McKenna
• 1969 - Norman Lindsay
• 1999 - Quentin Crisp
• 1996 - Mohammad Abdus Salam
• 1922 - Ricardo Flores Magon