Subject: Sports » Basketball (Page 3)

What do you have when you've got an agent buried up to his neck in sand? … Not enough sand.

(1941 – ) American basketball executive

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'm in favor of drug tests, just so long as they are multiple choice.

American basketball player & coach

 I don't think we've been beaten by officials more than five times this season.

college basketball coach

If I had a dollar for every time someone asked me that question… wait a minute, I do have a dollar for every time I've been asked that question.

American basketball player & coach

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

American basketball player

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

professional basketball player, coach & executive

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

The game is too long, the season is too long and the players are too long.

American basketball executive

The trouble with officials is they just don't care who wins.

American basketball player & coach

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

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

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

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

American basketball player

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

professional basketball player & coach

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

I call Los Angeles the city of alternatives. If you don't like mountains, we got the ocean. If you don't like Knott's Berry Farm, we've got Disneyland. If you don't like basketball, we've got the Clippers.

American television personality

Going into a game against Lew Alcindor [later Kareem Abdul-Jabbar] is like going into a knife fight and finding there's no blade in your handle.

basketball coach

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

basketball coach

You can run a lot of plays when your X is twice as big as the other guy's O.

American basketball player & coach

Complaints About NBA Referees Growing Ugly

We can't win at home and we can't win on the road. My problem as general manager is I can't think of another place to play.

(1941 – ) American basketball executive