Basketball Quotes and Sayings


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

Never underestimate the heart of a champion.
Rudy Tomjanovich

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

You don’t play against opponents. You play against the game of basketball.
Bobby Knight

Talent wins games, but team work and intelligence wins championships.
Michael Jordan

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

The rule was “No autopsy, no foul.
Stewart Granger

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.
Wilt Chamberlain

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 macrame.
Terry McGuire

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

Basketball doesn’t build character it reveals it.
Anonymous

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 you are as a person is far more important that what you are as a basketball player.
John Wooden

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

Sometimes a player’s greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.
Scottie Pippen

These Liberty girls, they don’t have sex, but you can always play in the mud!!
John Swickrath

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

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.
Charles Barkley

Basketball is like photography, if you don’t focus, all you have is the negative.
Dan Frisby

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

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

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

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

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    Go hard or go home.
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    You have to always play team ball you can win that way better.
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    Life is like basketball. Some people score points while others just dribble.
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    There is no I in team but there is an I in “WIN”.
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