Subject: Sports » Basketball

There are some remarkable parallels between basketball and politics; Michael Jordan has already mastered the skill most needed for political success: how to stay aloft without visible means of support.

(1925 – 2013) British prime minister & politician
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These people haven’t seen the last of my face. If I go down, I’m going down standing up.

American basketball player
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I'm in favor of drug tests, just so long as they are multiple choice.

American basketball player & coach
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Cleveland is trying to win the championship and Detroit has one foot in Cancun.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality
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I play my regulars; the only way a guy gets off the floor is if he dies.

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach
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The way defenses are operating these days, the other team starts picking you up when you walk out of the hotel lobby.

American college basketball coach
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Yeah… it’s called defense, I mean I wouldn't know anything about it personally but I've heard about it through the grapevine.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality
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Our offense is like the Pythagorean theorem: There is no answer!

American basketball player
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I'd never buy my girl a watch… she's already got a clock over the stove.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality
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Coach Red Auerbach makes mistakes, the entire Boston Celtics team makes mistakes, but they can get away with it because they have the world's largest eraser in center Bill Russell.

American basketball player
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I don't know what kind of test they can give him; he's delirious half the time anyway.

American basketball coach
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I'll always remember this as the night Michael and I combined to score 70 points.

American basketball player
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How can you call a foul on my man for using his eye to foul the other team’s player on his elbow?

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach
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We went to Alaska once and they made us honorary Alaskans. Then we went to Hawaii and they made us honorary Hawaiians. We're going to the Virgin Islands this year.

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach
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Just give him the ball.

American basketball player
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Incompetence should not be confined to one sex.

American basketball player & coach
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George McGinnis has got the body of a Greek god and the running ability of a Greek goddess.

American sportscaster
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There are only two plays that I know, Romeo and Juliet and put the damn ball in the basket.

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach
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Hey, some places this would be a foul!

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach
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You can run a lot of plays when your X is twice as big as the other guy's O.

American basketball player & coach
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I think that the team that wins game five will win the series… unless we lose game five.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality
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