Subject: Sports » Basketball

I always laugh when people ask me about rebounding techniques; I've got a technique… it's called just go get the damn ball.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

Yeah, I regret we weren't on a higher floor.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

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

American basketball player & broadcaster

These young guys are playing checkers; I'm out there playing chess.

American basketball player

To say a good defensive center is more important than a high-scoring forward is like saying that the intestinal tract is more vital than the circulatory system.

American basketball player

Ball handling and dribbling are my strongest weaknesses.

professional basketball player

If cocaine were helium, the NBA would float away.

American sportscaster

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'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.

American basketball player

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 sight down my nose to shoot, and now my nose isn't straight since I broke it. That's why my shooting has been off.

American basketball player

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

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

You out rebounded a dead man by one.

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

We may have broken rules … but we did not cheat.

Connecticut 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

The way to stop Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is to get real close to him and breathe on his goggles.

American basketball player

After a heavy reverse – It was an 'AW game. We were AWful and they were AWesome.

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

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

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

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach