Subject: Sports » Basketball (Page 8)

I look at the NBA as a football game without the helmet.

American basketball player & broadcaster

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

I told Zollie Volchok [Sonics general manager] we needed an ultrasound machine and he asked me why we needed music in the locker room.

American basketball player & coach

So what if they're taller? We'll play big.

college basketball coach

You can't even jump high enough to touch the rim, unless they put a Big Mac on it.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

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

Basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo.

(1902 – 1971) American humorist & poet

Stevie Wonder could make one of 23 shots.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

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

American basketball player

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

Just give him the ball.

American basketball player

We can’t win at home… we can’t win on the road; as general manager, I just can’t figure out where else to play.

(1941 – ) American basketball executive

So I'm ugly; I never saw anyone hit with his face.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

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

I'd never buy my girl a watch… she's already got a clock over the stove.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

When Xavier McDaniel plays against Orlando Wooldridge, it's a coach's dream – X vs O.

American basketball player

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


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

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

The rule was "No autopsy, no foul.”

Canadian basketball player

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

I can’t keep referring to basketball players as Khloe Kardashian’s husband and his friends.

(1983 – ) American comedian & actor