Quotes and One Liners

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

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

Basketball Sports To baseball Hall of Famer Johnny Bench

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

The rule was "No autopsy, no foul.”

Stewart Granger

Canadian basketball player

Basketball Sports Fouls On the pickup games of his childhood

Hey Stanley, you could be a great player if you learned just two words: I'm full.

Basketball Sports To 300-plus-pound Houston Rockets teammate Stanley Roberts

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

I think that the team that wins game five will win the series… unless we lose game five.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

Basketball Sports Incompetence On females officiating in the NBA Referees

Incompetence should not be confined to one sex.

Bill Russell

American basketball player & coach

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

Kobe Bryant

American basketball player

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

Weldon Drew

basketball coach

You don't hesitate with Michael, or you'll end up on some poster in a gift shop someplace.

Felten Spencer

American basketball player

Basketball Sports Michael Jordan

We went to Alaska once and they made us honorary Alaskans. Then we went to Hawaii and they made us honorary Hawaiians. We're going to the Virgin Islands this year.

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

Basketball Places Sports

You can't even jump high enough to touch the rim, unless they put a Big Mac on it.

Basketball Sports To 300+ pound Oliver Miller

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

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

Bill Walton

American basketball player

Basketball People Self Sports Beards Dylan

I don't like talking about money; all I know is the good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

Larry Bird

professional basketball player, coach & executive

Basketball Money Sports After signing a lucrative contract

Kids are great. That's one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. It's a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

Basketball Children Sports Fans

When Xavier McDaniel plays against Orlando Wooldridge, it's a coach's dream – X vs O.

Mychal Thompson

American basketball player

Giving Magic the basketball is like giving Hitler an army, Jesse James a gang, or Genghis Khan a horse.

Jim Murray

(1919 – 1998) American sportswriter

Basketball Sports Magic Johnson

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.

Bill Fitch

basketball coach

Basketball Sports Wilt Chamberlain

The way my team are doing, we could get Wilt Chamberlain in a trade and find out that he's really two midgets Scotch-taped together.

Gene Shue

American basketball player & coach

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

Basketball Sports Rebounding

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

Basketball Education School Sports Grades

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