Subject: Sports » Basketball

If you can walk with your head in the clouds and keep your feet on the ground, you can make a million dollars in the NBA

Canadian hockey player

This year we plan to run and shoot. Next season we hope to run and score.

American basketball coach

We told Stanley Roberts to go on a water diet, and Lake Superior disappeared.

(1941 – ) American basketball executive

If you go out with a girl and they say she has a great personality, she's ugly; if they tell you a guy works hard, he can't play a lick… same thing.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

I’ve been dunked on by (Vitaly) Potapenko and now (Zan) Tabak; the good part is that they don’t make posters of those guys.

professional basketball player

To say a good defensive center is more important than a high-scoring forward is like saying that the intestinal tract is more vital than the circulatory system.

American basketball player

To win, you've got to put the ball in the macramé.

American basketball player

Stevie Wonder could make one of 23 shots.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

I told Zollie Volchok [Sonics general manager] we needed an ultrasound machine and he asked me why we needed music in the locker room.

American basketball player & coach

The rule was "No autopsy, no foul.”

Canadian basketball player

If it's your brain, you'll be fine. That's the smallest organ in your body.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

I’m not playing favorites… all my favorites have graduated.

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

We can't win at home and we can't win on the road. My problem as general manager is I can't think of another place to play.

(1941 – ) American basketball executive

We are in the business of kicking butt and business is very, very good.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

The Minutemen are not tall in terms of height.

Basketball analyst & sportscaster

These young guys are playing checkers; I'm out there playing chess.

American basketball player

My beard is the only beard in the history of Western civilization that makes Bob Dylan's look good.

American basketball player

Just give him the ball.

American basketball player

In basketball, the first person to touch the ball shoots it. Either that or the coach carefully diagrams a set play and then the first player to touch it shoots it.

owner of the Seattle SuperSonics

George McGinnis has got the body of a Greek god and the running ability of a Greek goddess.

American sportscaster

Stevie Wonder could make one of 23 shots.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality