Subject: Sports » Basketball (Page 7)

All I know is, as long as I led the Southeastern Conference in scoring, my grades would be fine.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

I’ve won at every level, except college and pro.

American basketball player

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

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

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

I looked up in the stands and I thought I saw my wife and kids booing.

American basketball Coach

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

college basketball coach

After a heavy reverse – It was an 'AW game. We were AWful and they were AWesome.

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

professional basketball player & coach

These are my new shoes. They’re good shoes. They won’t make you rich like me, they won’t make you rebound like me, they definitely won’t make you handsome like me. They’ll only make you have shoes like me. That’s it.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

If I had a dollar for every time someone asked me that question… wait a minute, I do have a dollar for every time I've been asked that question.

American basketball player & coach

I don’t have any tricky plays, I’d rather have tricky players.

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

When I was recruited at Auburn, they took me to a strip joint; when I saw those titties on Buffy, I knew that Auburn met my academic requirements.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.

American basketball player

Stevie Wonder could make one of 23 shots.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

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

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

The rule was "No autopsy, no foul.”

Canadian basketball player

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

To win, you've got to put the ball in the macramé.

American basketball player

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

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