Subject: Sports » Basketball (Page 2)

We don’t need refs, but I guess white guys need something to do.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

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

basketball coach

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

American basketball player

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

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

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

There are some remarkable parallels between basketball and politics; Michael Jordan has already mastered the skill most needed for political success: how to stay aloft without visible means of support.

(1925 – 2013) British prime minister & politician

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

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

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

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

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

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

They probably would; I haven't played in twenty years and we're all old now.

professional basketball player, coach & executive

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

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

Coaches who start listening to fans wind up sitting next to them.

professional basketball player & 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

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

My beard is the only beard in the history of Western civilization that makes Bob Dylan's look good.

American basketball player

It’s almost like we have ESPN.

professional basketball player

Here's a six-foot-ten guy in sneakers and the lady's asking me, 'Profession?'


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

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