Subject: Sports » Basketball (Page 6)

A road runner taking you through every ditch, every irrigation canal, barbed wire fence and cattle guard.

American basketball player

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

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

Hey Stanley, you could be a great player if you learned just two words: I'm full.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

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

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

We may have broken rules … but we did not cheat.

Connecticut basketball coach

We lost some mighty good boys from last year because of paroles, but, crime being what it is, we've picked up some good ones since then, too.

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

I look at the NBA as a football game without the helmet.

American basketball player & broadcaster

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

professional basketball player

I’ve been dunked on by (Vitaly) Potapenko and now (Zan) Tabak; the good part is that they don’t make posters of those guys.

professional basketball player

Yeah, I regret we weren't on a higher floor.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

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

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

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

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

We can’t win at home… we can’t win on the road; as general manager, I just can’t figure out where else to play.

(1941 – ) American basketball executive

We are in the business of kicking butt and business is very, very good.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

Because there are no fours.

professional basketball player

The Orlando Magic were so bad last season, the cheerleaders stayed home and phoned in their cheers.

(1941 – ) American basketball executive

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

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

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