Subject: Sports » Basketball (Page 8)

I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do the operation on someone else, not you.

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
Basketball Sports

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.

(1929 – ) American author & sportswriter
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The earth in LA moved more in one hour than Benoit Benjamin did all last season with the Clippers.

American sports columnist & analyst
Basketball Sports

The company should change its name to Mike.

American basketball player
Basketball Sports

 You mean in the state?

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach
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If you go out with a girl and they say she has a great personality, she's ugly; if they tell you a guy works hard, he can't play a lick… same thing.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality
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The earth in L.A. moved more in one hour than Benoit Benjamin did all last season with the Clippers.

American sports columnist & analyst
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I don't know what kind of test they can give him; he's delirious half the time anyway.

American basketball coach
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This players getting taller thing is getting out of hand. What we need to do is sink the baskets into the floor at each end of the court and recruit midgets.

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach
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Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points, they almost always win.

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

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach
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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
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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
Basketball Sports

Ball handling and dribbling are my strongest weaknesses.

professional basketball player
Basketball Misspokements Sports

If you can walk with your head in the clouds and keep your feet on the ground, you can make a million dollars in the NBA

Canadian hockey player
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Going into a game against Lew Alcindor [later Kareem Abdul-Jabbar] is like going into a knife fight and finding there's no blade in your handle.

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

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality
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I'd never buy my girl a watch… she's already got a clock over the stove.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality
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Magic Johnson is the best player who plays on the ground, and Michael Jordan is the best player who plays in the air.

American basketball player
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Giving Magic the basketball is like giving Hitler an army, Jesse James a gang, or Genghis Khan a horse.

(1919 – 1998) American sportswriter
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