Subject: Sports » Basketball (Page 7)

The way my team are doing, we could get Wilt Chamberlain in a trade and find out that he's really two midgets Scotch-taped together.

American basketball player & coach

Every time I think about changing a diaper, I run a little bit harder and a little bit faster to make sure I can afford a nanny until my daughter's old enough to take care of that herself.

(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

You can run a lot of plays when your X is twice as big as the other guy's O.

American basketball player & coach

The earth in LA moved more in one hour than Benoit Benjamin did all last season with the Clippers.

American sports columnist & analyst

We're shooting 100 percent – 60 percent from the field and 40 percent from the free-throw line.

American basketball coach

The earth in L.A. moved more in one hour than Benoit Benjamin did all last season with the Clippers.

American sports columnist & analyst

They say that nobody is perfect… then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they’d make up their minds.

professional basketball player

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

Just give him the ball.

American basketball player

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

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

This is the second most exciting indoor sport, and the other one shouldn't have spectators.

American sports executive

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.

American basketball coach

Kids are great. That's one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. It's a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

We play a man-to-man defense. Person to person sounds like a telephone call.

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

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

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

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

professional basketball player, coach & executive

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

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

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager