Famous basketball quotations

   One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team Nice Word by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

   I know the Virginia players are smart because you need a 1500 SAT to get in. I have to drop bread crumbs to get our players to and from class Meaningful Quotation by George Raveling

Inspirational Sayings, Motivational Quotes, Great Words, Witty Proverbs
   Basketball is the MTV of sports.  Good Quote by Sara Levinson

   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.  Wise Phrase by John Edgar Wideman

   They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me Wise Phrase by Earvin Johnson

   This is the second most exciting indoor sport, and the other one shouldn't have spectators.  Famous Saying by 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.  Nice Word by James Naismith

   If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming Meaningful Quotation by Charles Barkley

   It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion Good Quote by John Wooden

   Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals Wise Phrase by James Naismith

   I hate it. It looks like a stickup at 7-Eleven. Five guys standing there with their hands in the air.  Wise Phrase by Norm Sloan, on zone defense

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

   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.  Nice Word by From a Charles Barkley commercial for basketball shoes, 1993

   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.  Meaningful Quotation by Bobby Knight

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

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

   They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me Wise Phrase by Earvin Johnson

   The rule was No autopsy, no foul.  Famous Saying by Stewart Granger, on the pickup games of his childhood

   If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball.  Nice Word by Phil Jackson

   You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball Meaningful Quotation by Bobby Knight

   Boards, Boards, Boards Good Quote by Knute Rockne

   One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team Wise Phrase by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

   I look at the NBA as a football game without the helmet.  Wise Phrase by Tom Tolbert

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

   I liked the choreography, but I didn't care for the costumes.  Nice Word by Tommy Tune, on why he never considered playing basketball



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