Subject: Sports » Basketball (Page 8)

On his 916th game as coach at University of Alabama – I've been here so long that when I got here the Dead Sea wasn't even sick.

American basketball coach

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

(1941 – ) American basketball executive

I don’t want to shoot my mouth in my foot, but those are games we can win.

professional basketball player

I just hope she doesn't start before I go in the Hall of Fame. That way, I won't have to kill anybody before I get inducted.

(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.


We play a man-to-man defense. Person to person sounds like a telephone call.

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

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

They say that nobody is perfect… then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they’d make up their minds.

professional basketball player

All I know is, as long as I led the Southeastern Conference in scoring, my grades would be fine.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

Many Americans follow pro basketball from November through June, for reasons that I found unexplainable, other than the fact that they were overly fascinated with soaring armpits.

(1929 – ) American author & sportswriter

To win, you've got to put the ball in the macramé.

American basketball player

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

Incompetence should not be confined to one sex.

American basketball player & coach

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

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

I miss America. I miss crime and murder. I miss Philadelphia. There hasn't been a brutal stabbing or anything here the last 24 hours. I've missed it.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

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

American basketball player

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

American basketball coach

I'm in favor of drug tests, just so long as they are multiple choice.

American basketball player & coach

There are only two plays that I know, Romeo and Juliet and put the damn ball in the basket.

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

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

American basketball player

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

(1941 – ) American basketball executive