Subject: Sports » Basketball (Page 6)

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

I don't hate anyone, at least not for more than 48 minutes, barring overtime.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

In my prime I could have handled Michael Jordan; of course, he would have been only 12 years old.

American basketball player & coach

We are in the business of kicking butt and business is very, very good.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

Unstoppable, Baby!

professional 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

Coach Red Auerbach makes mistakes, the entire Boston Celtics team makes mistakes, but they can get away with it because they have the world's largest eraser in center Bill Russell.

American basketball player

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

American basketball player

I don’t want to shoot my mouth in my foot, but those are games we can win.

professional basketball player

All I know is, as long as I led the Southeastern Conference in scoring, my grades would be fine.

(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 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

I'll always remember this as the night Michael and I combined to score 70 points.

American basketball player

I told one player, 'Son, I can't understand it with you. Is it ignorance or apathy?' He said, 'Coach, I don't know and I don't care.'

American basketball coach & executive

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

The rule was "No autopsy, no foul.”

Canadian basketball player

We lost some mighty good boys from last year because of paroles, but, crime being what it is, we've picked up some good ones since then, too.

basketball coach

I think the world is run by C students.

(1928 – 2001) American basketball coach

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

American basketball player

What do you have when you've got an agent buried up to his neck in sand? … Not enough sand.

(1941 – ) American basketball executive

Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points, they almost always win.

professional basketball player