Subject: Sports » Basketball (Page 8)

Bill Walton is incredible; if you drop a toothpick on his foot, he'll have a stress fracture.

American basketball coach

The Minutemen are not tall in terms of height.

Basketball analyst & sportscaster

This year we plan to run and shoot. Next season we hope to run and score.

American basketball coach

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


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

American basketball coach

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

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

That’s the one with all the ‘No Passing’ signs.

Take his body apart and see what's in it.

American basketball player

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 in favor of drug tests, just so long as they are multiple choice.

American basketball player & coach

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

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’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

We’ll just have to see if they can keep this Cinderella slipper alive.

They say that nobody is perfect… then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they’d make up their minds.

professional basketball player

A lot is said about defense, but at the end of the game, the team with the most points wins, the other team loses.

(Bob Costas replied with just, Uh…well…ok.)

professional basketball player

We lost some mighty good boys from last year because of paroles, but, crime being what it is, we've picked up some good ones since then, too.

basketball coach

If cocaine were helium, the NBA would float away.

American sportscaster

Part of the charm of basketball lies in the fact that it's a simple game to understand. Players race up and down a fairly small area indoors and stuff the ball into a ring with Madonna's dress hanging on it.

(1929 – ) American author & sportswriter

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

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

On his 916th game as coach at University of Alabama – I've been here so long that when I got here the Dead Sea wasn't even sick.

American basketball coach