Subject: Sports » Basketball

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

American basketball player & broadcaster

George McGinnis has got the body of a Greek god and the running ability of a Greek goddess.

American sportscaster

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

American basketball coach

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

Hey, some places this would be a foul!

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

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

American basketball player

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

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

Interviewer: Auburn is a pretty good school; to graduate from there I suppose you really need to work hard and put forth maximum effort.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

Cleveland is trying to win the championship and Detroit has one foot in Cancun.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

We play a man-to-man defense. Person to person sounds like a telephone call.

Incompetence should not be confined to one sex.

American basketball player & coach

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

college basketball coach

The earth in L.A. moved more in one hour than Benoit Benjamin did all last season with the Clippers.

American sports columnist & analyst

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

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

Tell me where you want to go. If they have a team, I'll schedule them.

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

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

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

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

American basketball player

I’m not playing favorites… all my favorites have graduated.

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

I call Los Angeles the city of alternatives. If you don't like mountains, we got the ocean. If you don't like Knott's Berry Farm, we've got Disneyland. If you don't like basketball, we've got the Clippers.

American television personality

 You mean in the state?

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach