Subject: Sports » Basketball (Page 2)

When I went to Catholic high school in Philadelphia, we just had one coach for football and basketball. He took all of us who turned out and had us run through a forest. The ones who ran into the trees were on the football team.

American basketball coach

Ball handling and dribbling are my strongest weaknesses.

professional basketball player

In my prime I could have handled Michael Jordan; of course, he would have been only 12 years old.

American basketball player & coach

[I employ] two offenses: the GMA, or "general milling around," and the Daylight Offense, as in "The first guy who sees daylight after he crosses mid-court shoots."

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

I heard Tonya Harding is calling herself the Charles Barkley of figure skating; I was going to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized I have no character.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

I haven't been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years… or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

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

I don’t have any tricky plays, I’d rather have tricky players.

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

Part of the charm of basketball lies in the fact that it's a simple game to understand. Players race up and down a fairly small area indoors and stuff the ball into a ring with Madonna's dress hanging on it.

(1929 – ) American author & sportswriter

In basketball, the first person to touch the ball shoots it. Either that or the coach carefully diagrams a set play and then the first player to touch it shoots it.

owner of the Seattle SuperSonics

Stevie Wonder could make one of 23 shots.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

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

American sports columnist & analyst

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

American sportscaster

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

American sports executive

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

American basketball player

We have a great bunch of outside shooters; unfortunately, all our games are played indoors.

basketball coach

These are my new shoes. They’re good shoes. They won’t make you rich like me, they won’t make you rebound like me, they definitely won’t make you handsome like me. They’ll only make you have shoes like me. That’s it.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

Bill Walton is incredible; if you drop a toothpick on his foot, he'll have a stress fracture.

American basketball coach

You out rebounded a dead man by one.

(1922 – 2002) 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

Hell, there ain't but 15 black millionaires in the whole country & half of 'em are right here in this room.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality