Subject: Sports » Basketball (Page 4)

The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy.

American basketball coach

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

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

If I ever need a heart transplant, I want his [Bobby Knight’s]… it’s never been used.

American 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

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

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

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

American sports columnist & analyst

Because there are no fours.

professional basketball player

Just give him the ball.

American basketball player

I remember sitting down with the Rockets and saying, 'Yeah. I'm going to retire.' They said, 'Well, we'll give you $9 million.' And I said, 'You got a pen on you?'

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

How can you call a foul on my man for using his eye to foul the other team’s player on his elbow?

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

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

American basketball player

Tell me where you want to go. If they have a team, I'll schedule them.

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points, they almost always win.

professional basketball player

They say that nobody is perfect… then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they’d make up their minds.

professional basketball player

A tough day at the office is even tougher when your office contains spectator seating.

I don’t want to shoot my mouth in my foot, but those are games we can win.

professional basketball player

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

We don’t pray after a game… that’s too late.

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

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

American basketball player