Subject: Sports » Basketball (Page 5)

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

American basketball player

Tell me where you want to go. If they have a team, I'll schedule them.

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

I'm in favor of drug tests, just so long as they are multiple choice.

American basketball player & coach

If you had come with me, you could be the principal of a high school by now.

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

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

professional basketball player & coach

We’ll just have to see if they can keep this Cinderella slipper alive.

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

(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

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

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

It was the toughest seven-man zone we faced all year.

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

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

(1941 – ) American basketball executive

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

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

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

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

It's almost like we have ESPN.

American basketball player

Complaints About NBA Referees Growing Ugly

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

American basketball player

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

American sportswriter

Shooting is just like toenails. They may fall off occasionally, but you know they'll always come back.

American basketball player

Because there are no fours.

professional basketball player