Subject: Sports » Basketball (Page 6)

You can't even jump high enough to touch the rim, unless they put a Big Mac on it.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

I told you I needed to feed my family; they offered me 3 years at $21 million – that’s not going to cut it.

professional basketball player

My nose didn't move… it definitely had position.

American basketball player

Going into a game against Lew Alcindor [later Kareem Abdul-Jabbar] is like going into a knife fight and finding there's no blade in your handle.

basketball coach

I told Zollie Volchok [Sonics general manager] we needed an ultrasound machine and he asked me why we needed music in the locker room.

American basketball player & coach

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

Just give him the ball.

American basketball player

I always laugh when people ask me about rebounding techniques; I've got a technique… it's called just go get the damn ball.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

I can’t keep referring to basketball players as Khloe Kardashian’s husband and his friends.

(1983 – ) American comedian & actor

Stevie Wonder could make one of 23 shots.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

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

American basketball player

We can't win at home and we can't win on the road. My problem as general manager is I can't think of another place to play.

(1941 – ) American basketball executive

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

American basketball player

I'm just what America needs – another unemployed black man.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

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

American basketball player

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

college basketball coach

Interviewer: Did you graduate from Auburn?
Charles: No, but I have a couple people working for me who did.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

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

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

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


I won't say Wilt Chamberlain is the strongest man I've ever known, but when he wipes the sweat off his brow, people in the balcony get a bath.

basketball coach

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