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The trouble with officials is they just don't care who wins.

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I told him, ‘Son, what is it with you? … Is it ignorance or apathy?’

He said, ‘Coach, I don’t know and I don’t care.’

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

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality
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Tell me where you want to go. If they have a team, I'll schedule them.

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach
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I told one player, 'Son, I can't understand it with you. Is it ignorance or apathy?' He said, 'Coach, I don't know and I don't care.'

American basketball coach & executive
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In my prime I could have handled Michael Jordan; of course, he would have been only 12 years old.

American basketball player & coach
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Our offense is like the Pythagorean theorem: There is no answer!

American basketball player
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My nose didn't move… it definitely had position.

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

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Charles joined my family for a day at the beach and my children asked if they could go into the ocean; I had to tell them “Not right now kids, Charles is using it.”

(1941 – ) American basketball executive
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We went to Alaska once and they made us honorary Alaskans. Then we went to Hawaii and they made us honorary Hawaiians. We're going to the Virgin Islands this year.

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach
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It’s almost like we have ESPN.

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I don’t want to shoot my mouth in my foot, but those are games we can win.

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Ball handling and dribbling are my strongest weaknesses.

professional basketball player
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I’ve been dunked on by (Vitaly) Potapenko and now (Zan) Tabak; the good part is that they don’t make posters of those guys.

professional basketball player
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Here's a six-foot-ten guy in sneakers and the lady's asking me, 'Profession?'


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You out rebounded a dead man by one.

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach
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They probably would; I haven't played in twenty years and we're all old now.

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Because there are no fours.

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When I went to Catholic high school in Philadelphia, we just had one coach for football and basketball. He took all of us who turned out and had us run through a forest. The ones who ran into the trees were on the football team.

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