Subject: Sports » Basketball (Page 5)

He [Magic Johnson] comes into the league with all that fancy stuff and they call it magic; I’ve been doing it for years and they call it schoolyard.

professional basketball player

We're shooting 100 percent – 60 percent from the field and 40 percent from the free-throw line.

American basketball coach

Every time I think about changing a diaper, I run a little bit harder and a little bit faster to make sure I can afford a nanny until my daughter's old enough to take care of that herself.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

The company should change its name to Mike.

American basketball player

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

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

When I went to Catholic high school in Philadelphia, we just had one coach for football and basketball. He took all of us who turned out and had us run through a forest. The ones who ran into the trees were on the football team.

American basketball coach

Ball handling and dribbling are my strongest weaknesses.

professional basketball player

In my prime I could have handled Michael Jordan; of course, he would have been only 12 years old.

American basketball player & coach

Basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo.

(1902 – 1971) American humorist & poet

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

They probably would; I haven't played in twenty years and we're all old now.

professional basketball player, coach & executive

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

(1941 – ) American basketball executive

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

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

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

I heard Tonya Harding is calling herself the Charles Barkley of figure skating; I was going to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized I have no character.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

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

It's almost like we have ESPN.

American basketball player

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

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

You out rebounded a dead man by one.

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

Unstoppable, Baby!

professional basketball player