Subject: Sports » Basketball (Page 6)

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

That guy has muscles in places most people don't have places.

American basketball broadcaster

When I told my wife UConn would win the Big East tournament, she wanted to know why a team from Alaska got into the Big East tournament.

American sportswriter

That’s the one with all the ‘No Passing’ signs.

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

professional basketball player & coach

Cleveland is trying to win the championship and Detroit has one foot in Cancun.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

We don’t need refs, but I guess white guys need something to do.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

Hey Stanley, you could be a great player if you learned just two words: I'm full.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

We don’t pray after a game… that’s too late.

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

He [Magic Johnson] comes into the league with all that fancy stuff and they call it magic; I’ve been doing it for years and they call it schoolyard.

professional basketball player

I haven't been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years… or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

I remember sitting down with the Rockets and saying, 'Yeah. I'm going to retire.' They said, 'Well, we'll give you $9 million.' And I said, 'You got a pen on you?'

(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

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

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

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

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

professional basketball player & coach

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

college basketball coach

The L.A. Lakers are so good they could run a fast break with a medicine ball.

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

American basketball player

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