Quotes and One Liners

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

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

I play my regulars; the only way a guy gets off the floor is if he dies.

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

Beasley was 6’10” in college and 6’7” when he entered the NBA.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

Basketball Sports On Michael Beasley

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.

Bill Fitch

basketball coach

Basketball Sports Wilt Chamberlain

Many Americans follow pro basketball from November through June, for reasons that I found unexplainable, other than the fact that they were overly fascinated with soaring armpits.

Dan Jenkins

(1929 – ) American author & sportswriter

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.

Basketball Sports After Michael Jordan had scored a play-off record 69 points

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

Basketball Situations Sports Changing diapers

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

Stacey King

American basketball player

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

Lennie Wllkens

American basketball player & coach

Basketball Entertainment Music Sports

Basketball has so much showboating you'd think it was invented by Jerome Kern.

Art Spander

American sportswriter

You can say something to popes, kings and presidents, but you can't talk to officials. In the next war they ought to give everyone a whistle.

Basketball Sports Basketball players Khloe Kardashian

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

Basketball Sports Referees

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

Aziz Ansari

(1983 – ) American comedian & actor

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

Peter Vescey

American sports columnist & analyst

Basketball Sports After an earthquake in Los Angeles Benoit Benjamin

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

Anonymous high school coach

Basketball Sports On his girls' team’s tactics

I don't like talking about money; all I know is the good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

Larry Bird

professional basketball player, coach & executive

Basketball Money Sports After signing a lucrative contract

I miss America. I miss crime and murder. I miss Philadelphia. There hasn't been a brutal stabbing or anything here the last 24 hours. I've missed it.

Basketball Places Sports On his homesickness during the Barcelona Olympics

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

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

Basketball Sports Fouls To a referee

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

Basketball Misspokements Sports To the opponents' bench after scoring during a 29-point loss

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

Basketball Sports Rebounding

Unstoppable, Baby!

Marc Jackson

professional 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.

Dean Smith

(1931 – ) American college basketball coach

Basketball Sports Coaching

You out rebounded a dead man by one.