Subject: Sports » Basketball (Page 2)

Hey Stanley, you could be a great player if you learned just two words: I'm full.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do the operation on someone else, not you.

American basketball player

The earth in L.A. moved more in one hour than Benoit Benjamin did all last season with the Clippers.

American sports columnist & analyst

When I went to Catholic high school in Philadelphia, we just had one coach for football and basketball. He took all of us who turned out and had us run through a forest. The ones who ran into the trees were on the football team.

American basketball coach

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

The L.A. Lakers are so good they could run a fast break with a medicine ball.

The Orlando Magic were so bad last season, the cheerleaders stayed home and phoned in their cheers.

(1941 – ) American basketball executive

[I employ] two offenses: the GMA, or "general milling around," and the Daylight Offense, as in "The first guy who sees daylight after he crosses mid-court shoots."

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

So I'm ugly; I never saw anyone hit with his face.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

Incompetence should not be confined to one sex.

American basketball player & coach

We play a man-to-man defense. Person to person sounds like a telephone call.

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

Just give him the ball.

American basketball player

So what if they're taller? We'll play big.

college basketball coach

The game is too long, the season is too long and the players are too long.

American basketball executive

I told you I needed to feed my family; they offered me 3 years at $21 million – that’s not going to cut it.

professional basketball player

The rule was "No autopsy, no foul.”

Canadian basketball player

Coaches who start listening to fans wind up sitting next to them.

professional basketball player & coach

If a coach starts listening to the fans, he ends up sitting next to them.

professional basketball player & coach

That’s the one with all the ‘No Passing’ signs.

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