Subject: Sports » Basketball (Page 5)

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

American sports columnist & analyst

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

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

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

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

The way defenses are operating these days, the other team starts picking you up when you walk out of the hotel lobby.

American college basketball coach

It’s almost like we have ESPN.

professional basketball player

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

American sports columnist & analyst

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

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

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

college basketball coach

I think the world is run by C students.

(1928 – 2001) American basketball coach

This is the second most exciting indoor sport, and the other one shouldn't have spectators.

American sports executive

After a heavy reverse – It was an 'AW game. We were AWful and they were AWesome.

I haven't been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years… or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

It's almost like we have ESPN.

American basketball player

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

That’s the one with all the ‘No Passing’ signs.

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

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

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

American basketball coach

Incompetence should not be confined to one sex.

American basketball player & coach

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

American basketball player