Subject: Sports » Basketball (Page 8)

This year we plan to run and shoot. Next season we hope to run and score.

American basketball coach

You can run a lot of plays when your X is twice as big as the other guy's O.

American basketball player & coach

It's almost like we have ESPN.

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

When I told my wife UConn would win the Big East tournament, she wanted to know why a team from Alaska got into the Big East tournament.

American sportswriter

These are my new shoes. They’re good shoes. They won’t make you rich like me, they won’t make you rebound like me, they definitely won’t make you handsome like me. They’ll only make you have shoes like me. That’s it.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

 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

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

American basketball player

It’s almost like we have ESPN.

professional 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

Here's a six-foot-ten guy in sneakers and the lady's asking me, 'Profession?'


Stevie Wonder could make one of 23 shots.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

It looks like a stickup at 7-Eleven. Five guys standing there with their hands in the air.


To symbolize our great relationship, I'd like you to have this framed x-ray of my ulcer.

(1941 – ) American basketball executive

I liked the choreography, but I didn't care for the costumes.

(1939 – ) American actor, dancer, singer, producer & choreographer

He had eyes in his ears.

American basketball announcer

You might be a redneck if… your high school basketball game got rained out.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

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

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

We don’t need refs, but I guess white guys need something to do.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

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

Incompetence should not be confined to one sex.

American basketball player & coach