Subject: Sports » Basketball (Page 4)

Basketball has so much showboating you'd think it was invented by Jerome Kern.

American sportswriter

Take his body apart and see what's in it.

American basketball player

I can’t keep referring to basketball players as Khloe Kardashian’s husband and his friends.

(1983 – ) American comedian & actor

I sight down my nose to shoot, and now my nose isn't straight since I broke it. That's why my shooting has been off.

American basketball player

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.

American basketball player & coach

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

Coach Red Auerbach makes mistakes, the entire Boston Celtics team makes mistakes, but they can get away with it because they have the world's largest eraser in center Bill Russell.

American basketball player

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

American basketball player & coach

I never thought I'd lead the NBA in rebounding, but I got a lot of help from my teammates – they did a lot of missing.

professional basketball player

Magic Johnson is the best player who plays on the ground, and Michael Jordan is the best player who plays in the air.

American basketball player

Cleveland is trying to win the championship and Detroit has one foot in Cancun.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

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

(1919 – 1998) American sportswriter

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

American sports columnist & analyst

My nose didn't move… it definitely had position.

American basketball player

Stevie Wonder could make one of 23 shots.

(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

It’s almost like we have ESPN.

professional basketball player

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

professional basketball player

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

American basketball player

You can say something to popes, kings and presidents, but you can't talk to officials. In the next war they ought to give everyone a whistle.

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

 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