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
Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.
~Wilt Chamberlain
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.
~From a Charles Barkley commercial for basketball shoes
One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
~Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
This is the second most exciting indoor sport, and the other one shouldn’t have spectators.
~Dick Vertleib
If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball.
~Phil Jackson
Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals.
~James Naismith
I liked the choreography, but I didn’t care for the costumes.
~Tommy Tune
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
When I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I got things exactly correct. My dream was to become a pro.
~Larry Bird
There are really only two plays: Romeo and Juliet, and put the darn ball in the basket.
~Abe Lemons
My responsibility is getting all my players playing for the name on the front of the jersey, not the one on the back.
~Source Unknown
What is so fascinating about sitting around watching a bunch of pituitary cases stuff a ball through a hoop?
~Woody Allen
Basketball doesn’t build character it reveals it.
~Author Unknown
Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up.
~Bill Vaughn
Basketball is like photography, if you don’t focus, all you have is the negative.
~Dan Frisby
It’s not the hours you put in, it’s what you put in the hours.
~Unknown
We have a great bunch of outside shooters. Unfortunately, all our games are played indoors.
~Weldon Drew
On a player passing up an open shot: “You miss 100% of the shots that you don’t take.
~Joe Ledbetter
If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love was on channel 4, I’d watch the frogs even if they were coming in fuzzy.
~Bobby Knight
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
~Henry Ford
Basketball is the MTV of sports.
~Sara Levinson
You don’t play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.
~Bobby Knight
The rule was “No autopsy, no foul.”
~Stewart Granger
I thank my teammates for letting their men blow by them.
~Alonzo Mourning
The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.
~Bill Russell
Don’t do more than you can do, but don’t do less either.
~Jeff Fletcher
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
Sometimes a player’s greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.
~Scottie Pippen
I hate it. It looks like a stickup at 7-Eleven. Five guys standing there with their hands in the air.
~Norm Sloan
Left hand, right hand, it doesn’t matter. I’m amphibious.
~Charles Shackleford
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
I’m tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.
~Shaquille O’Neal
Fans never fall asleep at our games, because they’re afraid they might get hit by a pass.
~George Raveling
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
If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball.
~Phil Jackson
You don’t play against opponents. You play against the game of basketball.
~Bobby Knight
Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up.
~Bill Vaughn
When I went to Catholic high school in Philadelphia, we just had one coach for football and basketball. He took all of us who turned out and had us run through a forest. The ones who ran into the trees were on the football team.
~George Raveling
There are really only two plays: Romeo and Juliet, and put the darn ball in the basket.
~Abe Lemons
The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy.
~Jerry Tarkanian
If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I’d watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.
~Bobby Knight
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
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not. ~Charles Barkley
When I dunk, I put something on it. I want the ball to hit the floor before I do. ~Darryl Dawkins
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 Barry
A tough day at the office is even tougher when your OFFICE contains spectator seating.
~Nik Posa
I look at the NBA as a football game without the helmet.
~Tom Tolbert
They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they’d make up their minds.
~Wilt Chamberlain
To win, you’ve got to put the ball in the macramé.
~Terry McGuire
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