Subject: Sports » Basketball (Page 2)

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

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

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

American basketball player

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

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

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 liked the choreography, but I didn't care for the costumes.

(1939 – ) American actor, dancer, singer, producer & choreographer

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

American basketball player

He had eyes in his ears.

American basketball announcer

Fans never fall asleep at our games because they're afraid they might get hit with a pass.

American basketball coach

Charles joined my family for a day at the beach and my children asked if they could go into the ocean; I had to tell them “Not right now kids, Charles is using it.”

(1941 – ) American basketball executive

You can run a lot of plays when your X is twice as big as the other guy's O.

American basketball player & coach

These are my new shoes. They’re good shoes. They won’t make you rich like me, they won’t make you rebound like me, they definitely won’t make you handsome like me. They’ll only make you have shoes like me. That’s it.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

If you’re going to make every game a matter of life or death, you’re going to have a lot of problems… for one thing, you’ll be dead a lot.

(1931 – ) American college basketball coach

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

professional basketball player & coach

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

American sports columnist & analyst

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

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

Here's a six-foot-ten guy in sneakers and the lady's asking me, 'Profession?'


This players getting taller thing is getting out of hand. What we need to do is sink the baskets into the floor at each end of the court and recruit midgets.

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

Basketball has so much showboating you'd think it was invented by Jerome Kern.

American sportswriter

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

(1941 – ) American basketball executive