Subject: Sports » Basketball (Page 5)

We can’t win at home… we can’t win on the road; as general manager, I just can’t figure out where else to play.

(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

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

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

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

I heard Tonya Harding is calling herself the Charles Barkley of figure skating; I was going to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized I have no character.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

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 miss America. I miss crime and murder. I miss Philadelphia. There hasn't been a brutal stabbing or anything here the last 24 hours. I've missed it.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

Mick Jagger is in better shape than far too many NBA players. It's up in the air whether the same can be said of Keith Richards.

American basketball player

 I don't like talking about money; all I know is the good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

professional basketball player, coach & executive

Hell, there ain't but 15 black millionaires in the whole country & half of 'em are right here in this room.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

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

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

 I don't think we've been beaten by officials more than five times this season.

college basketball coach

The Minutemen are not tall in terms of height.

Basketball analyst & sportscaster

Ball handling and dribbling are my strongest weaknesses.

professional basketball player

I believe in higher education… you know, 6'8", 6'9", 6'10."

They probably would; I haven't played in twenty years and we're all old now.

professional basketball player, coach & executive

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

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

For over 20 years the Boston Celtics have stood for something. The only thing they stand for now is the [national] anthem.

American sportswriter

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

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