Subject: Sports » Basketball (Page 7)

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

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach
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I'll always remember this as the night Michael and I combined to score 70 points.

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

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Incompetence should not be confined to one sex.

American basketball player & coach
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When Xavier McDaniel plays against Orlando Wooldridge, it's a coach's dream – X vs O.

American basketball player
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How can you call a foul on my man for using his eye to foul the other team’s player on his elbow?

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach
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The game is too long, the season is too long and the players are too long.

American basketball executive
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Hey, some places this would be a foul!

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach
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There are some remarkable parallels between basketball and politics; Michael Jordan has already mastered the skill most needed for political success: how to stay aloft without visible means of support.

(1925 – 2013) British prime minister & politician
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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
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We are in the business of kicking butt and business is very, very good.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality
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Basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo.

(1902 – 1971) American humorist & poet
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I think that the team that wins game five will win the series… unless we lose game five.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality
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I can’t keep referring to basketball players as Khloe Kardashian’s husband and his friends.

(1983 – ) American comedian & actor
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These young guys are playing checkers; I'm out there playing chess.

American basketball player
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In basketball, the first person to touch the ball shoots it. Either that or the coach carefully diagrams a set play and then the first player to touch it shoots it.

owner of the Seattle SuperSonics
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These people haven’t seen the last of my face. If I go down, I’m going down standing up.

American basketball player
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I believe in higher education… you know, 6'8", 6'9", 6'10."

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Yeah… it’s called defense, I mean I wouldn't know anything about it personally but I've heard about it through the grapevine.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality
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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
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