Subject: Sports » Basketball (Page 6)

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

American basketball player & coach

The trouble with officials is they just don't care who wins.

American basketball player & coach

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

Connecticut basketball coach

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

American basketball player

The Minutemen are not tall in terms of height.

Basketball analyst & sportscaster

Interviewer: Auburn is a pretty good school; to graduate from there I suppose you really need to work hard and put forth maximum effort.

(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

Because there are no fours.

professional basketball player

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

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

If a coach starts listening to the fans, he ends up sitting next to them.

professional basketball player & coach

But he was the worst dresser in organized baseball; he made Inspector Clouseau look like a candidate for Mr. Blackwell's list of best-dressed men.

American baseball pitcher

You out rebounded a dead man by one.

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

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

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

Just give him the ball.

American basketball player

In basketball, the first person to touch the ball shoots it. Either that or the coach carefully diagrams a set play and then the first player to touch it shoots it.

owner of the Seattle SuperSonics

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

This players getting taller thing is getting out of hand. What we need to do is sink the baskets into the floor at each end of the court and recruit midgets.

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

That guy has muscles in places most people don't have places.

American basketball broadcaster

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

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

American basketball player

If you can walk with your head in the clouds and keep your feet on the ground, you can make a million dollars in the NBA

Canadian hockey player