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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
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 look at the NBA as a football game without the helmet. ~Tom
Tolbert
To win, you've got to put the ball in the macramé. ~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. ~From a Charles Barkley commercial for basketball shoes,
1993
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
The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your
opponent believe that you might block every shot. ~Bill Russell
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
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
Fans never fall asleep at our games, because they're afraid they
might get hit by a pass. ~George Raveling
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
You don't play against opponents. You play against the game of
basketball. ~Bobby Knight
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
We're shooting 100 percent - 60 percent from the field and 40
percent from the free-throw line. ~Norm Stewart
You 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
Giving "Magic" the basketball is like giving Hitler an army, Jesse
James a gang, or Genghis Khan a horse. ~Jim Murray, about Earvin
Johnson
The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will
cheer like crazy. ~Jerry Tarkanian
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Quotations about Basketball