Basketball Quotes, Sayings about basketball sport
+3Nothing 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
+1Basketball is the MTV of sports.
- Sara Levinson
+1Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals.
- James Naismith
+1Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.
- Wilt Chamberlain
+1To win, you’ve got to put the ball in the macramé.
- Terry McGuire
+1If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball.
- Phil Jackson
+1I look at the NBA as a football game without the helmet.
- Tom Tolbert
+1Left hand, right hand, it doesn’t matter. I’m amphibious.
- Charles Shackleford
+1I liked the choreography, but I didn’t care for the costumes.
- Tommy Tune
+1Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up.
- Bill Vaughn
+1Talent wins games, but team work and intelligence wins championships.
- Michael Jordan
+1If you are going to take it to the bank, then you better cash it in.
- Shannon Fish
+1You don’t play against opponents. You play against the game of basketball.
- Bobby Knight
+1One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
- Kareem Abdul Jabbar
+1The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
- Charles Barkley
+1Basketball is like photography, if you don’t focus, all you have is the negative.
- Dan Frisby
+1When I dunk, I put something on it. I want the ball to hit the floor before I do.
- Darryl Dawkins
+1Sometimes a player’s greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.
- Scottie Pippen
+1The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy.
- Jerry Tarkanian
+1A tough day at the office is even tougher when your OFFICE contains spectator seating.
- Nik Posa
+1There are really only two plays: Romeo and Juliet, and put the darn ball in the basket.
- Abe Lemons
+1Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best.
- Tim Duncan
+1We have a great bunch of outside shooters. Unfortunately, all our games are played indoors.
- Weldon Drew
+1This is the second most exciting indoor sport, and the other one shouldn’t have spectators.
- Dick Vertleib
+1We’re shooting 100 percent – 60 percent from the field and 40 percent from the free-throw line.
- Norm Stewart
+1I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.
- Kareem Abdul Jabbar
+1I hate it. It looks like a stickup at 7-Eleven. Five guys standing there with their hands in the air.
- Norm Sloan
+1Giving “Magic” the basketball is like giving Hitler an army, Jesse James a gang, or Genghis Khan a horse.
- Jim Murray
+1What is so fascinating about sitting around watching a bunch of pituitary cases stuff a ball through a hoop?
- Woody Allen
+1They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they’d make up their minds.
- Wilt Chamberlain
+1When 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
+1I’m tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.
- Shaquille O’Neal
+1If 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
+1The 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
+1I 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
+1The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.
- Bill Russell
+1You can run a lot of plays when your X is twice as big as the other guys’ O. It makes your X’s and O’s pretty good.
- Paul Westphal
+1Pressure can burst a pipe or pressure can make a diamond.
- Robert Horry
+1We had a convicted felon as the president. … And no organization.
- Felix Sabates
+1The best teams have chemistry. They communicate with each other and they sacrifice personal glory for the common goal.
- Dave DeBusschere
