Subject: Sports » Basketball (Page 4)

This is the second most exciting indoor sport, and the other one shouldn't have spectators.

American sports executive

I just hope she doesn't start before I go in the Hall of Fame. That way, I won't have to kill anybody before I get inducted.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

Our offense is like the Pythagorean theorem: There is no answer!

American basketball player

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

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

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

American basketball coach

The rule was "No autopsy, no foul.”

Canadian basketball player

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

But he was the worst dresser in organized baseball; he made Inspector Clouseau look like a candidate for Mr. Blackwell's list of best-dressed men.

American baseball pitcher

I never thought I'd lead the NBA in rebounding, but I got a lot of help from my teammates – they did a lot of missing.

professional basketball player

The way my team are doing, we could get Wilt Chamberlain in a trade and find out that he's really two midgets Scotch-taped together.

American basketball player & coach

If I had a dollar for every time someone asked me that question… wait a minute, I do have a dollar for every time I've been asked that question.

American basketball player & coach

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

When I was recruited at Auburn, they took me to a strip joint; when I saw those titties on Buffy, I knew that Auburn met my academic requirements.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

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

professional basketball player & coach

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 think that the team that wins game five will win the series… unless we lose game five.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

Just give him the ball.

American basketball player

The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

I don’t have any tricky plays, I’d rather have tricky players.

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

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

A road runner taking you through every ditch, every irrigation canal, barbed wire fence and cattle guard.

American basketball player