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Basketball Quotes

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

This is the second most exciting indoor sport, and the other one shouldn't have spectators.
~ Dick Vertleib

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Basketball is the MTV of sports.
~ Sara Levinson

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

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

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

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

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

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