"what you are a person is far more important than what are you as a basketball player"

      "What you are as a person is far more important than what are you are as a basketball player "

This quote means that its more important what you are as a person than being a basketball player
for example , if i was a basketball player and i choose to be one and i like being one , i just basically choosing to be a basketball player than a person that would care about there life and say that basket is more important than anything . I say that's what the player might thing about there self and also can they can also say that they would probably say that basketball is more important that school work and start worrying about that they lost and they have a game next week or anything and start failing there classes just because basketball is important to be but that's not right their choosing the wrong . But in my opinion i would first start worry about my class assignments and then basketball duties.