Subject: Sports » Basketball (Page 8)

I sight down my nose to shoot, and now my nose isn't straight since I broke it. That's why my shooting has been off.

American basketball player

Mick Jagger is in better shape than far too many NBA players. It's up in the air whether the same can be said of Keith Richards.

American basketball player

The Minutemen are not tall in terms of height.

Basketball analyst & sportscaster

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.

(1931 – ) American college basketball coach

For over 20 years the Boston Celtics have stood for something. The only thing they stand for now is the [national] anthem.

American sportswriter

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

Incompetence should not be confined to one sex.

American basketball player & coach

Our offense is like the Pythagorean theorem: There is no answer!

American basketball player

We can't win at home and we can't win on the road. My problem as general manager is I can't think of another place to play.

(1941 – ) American basketball executive

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

I don't hate anyone, at least not for more than 48 minutes, barring overtime.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

It looks like a stickup at 7-Eleven. Five guys standing there with their hands in the air.


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

American basketball player & coach

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

American basketball player

We're shooting 100 percent – 60 percent from the field and 40 percent from the free-throw line.

American basketball coach

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

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

My beard is the only beard in the history of Western civilization that makes Bob Dylan's look good.

American basketball player

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

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

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

They probably would; I haven't played in twenty years and we're all old now.

professional basketball player, coach & executive

Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points, they almost always win.

professional basketball player