Basketball Quotes

• BASKETBALL QUOTE OF THE PAGE
  This is the second most exciting indoor sport, and the other one shouldn't have spectators.
  Dick Vertleib


• The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play "Drop the Handkerchief."
  James Naismith


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


• What is so fascinating about sitting around watching a bunch of pituitary cases stuff a ball through a hoop?
  Woody Allen


• I haven't been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either.
  Dave Barr


• I liked the choreography, but I didn't care for the costumes.
  Tommy Tune (on why he never considered playing basketball)


• The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.
  Bill Russell


• Basketball is the MTV of sports.
  Sara Levinson


• There are really only two plays: Romeo and Juliet, and put the darn ball in the basket.
  Abe Lemons


• You don't play against opponents. You play against the game of basketball.
  Bobby Knight


• Fans never fall asleep at our games, because they're afraid they might get hit by a pass.
  George Raveling


• When it's played the way is spozed to be played, basketball happens in the air; flying, floating, elevated above the floor, levitating the way oppressed peoples of this earth imagine themselves in their dreams.
  John Edgar Wideman


• Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up.
  Bill Vaughn


• 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.
  Charles Barkley (commercial for basketball shoes 1993)


• We have a great bunch of outside shooters. Unfortunately, all our games are played indoors.
  Weldon Drew


• Giving "Magic" the basketball is like giving Hitler an army, Jesse James a gang, or Genghis Khan a horse.
  Jim Murray (about Magic Johnson)


• Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.
  Red Auerbach


• The rule was "No autopsy, no foul."
  Stewart Granger


• The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
  Charles Barkley


• Nothing there but basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo.
  Ogden Nash


• If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball.
  Phil Jackson


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


• When I dunk, I put something on it. I want the ball to hit the floor before I do.
  Darryl Dawkins


• The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy.
  Jerry Tarkanian

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