Subject: Sports » Basketball

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

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

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

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

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

American basketball player

I won't say Wilt Chamberlain is the strongest man I've ever known, but when he wipes the sweat off his brow, people in the balcony get a bath.

basketball coach

I never thought I'd lead the NBA in rebounding, but I got a lot of help from my teammates – they did a lot of missing.

professional basketball player

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

professional basketball player & coach

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

The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy.

American basketball coach

To symbolize our great relationship, I'd like you to have this framed x-ray of my ulcer.

(1941 – ) American basketball executive

You may be big in New York, but in Walters, Oklahoma, you're nobody.

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

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

American sports executive

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

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

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

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

These people haven’t seen the last of my face. If I go down, I’m going down standing up.

American basketball player

You out rebounded a dead man by one.

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

Basketball has so much showboating you'd think it was invented by Jerome Kern.

American sportswriter

I only know how to play two ways: reckless and abandon.

American basketball player

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

American basketball player

Unstoppable, Baby!

professional basketball player