Subject: Sports » Basketball

You can say something to popes, kings and presidents, but you can't talk to officials. In the next war they ought to give everyone a whistle.

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

I liked the choreography, but I didn't care for the costumes.

(1939 – ) American actor, dancer, singer, producer & choreographer

I looked up in the stands and I thought I saw my wife and kids booing.

American 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

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

I want to be like Maxwell House coffee – good to the last drop.

professional baseball player

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

American basketball player & coach

The L.A. Lakers are so good they could run a fast break with a medicine ball.

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

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

If a coach starts listening to the fans, he ends up sitting next to them.

professional basketball player & coach

I'm just what America needs – another unemployed black man.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

This is the second most exciting indoor sport, and the other one shouldn't have spectators.

American sports executive

It was the toughest seven-man zone we faced all year.

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

Every time I think about changing a diaper, I run a little bit harder and a little bit faster to make sure I can afford a nanny until my daughter's old enough to take care of that herself.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

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

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

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

If it's your brain, you'll be fine. That's the smallest organ in your body.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

Interviewer: Did you graduate from Auburn?
Charles: No, but I have a couple people working for me who did.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

Incompetence should not be confined to one sex.

American basketball player & coach