Basketball Quotes and Sayings

Left hand, right hand, it doesn't matter. I'm amphibious.
~ Charles Shackleford

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

A tough day at the office is even tougher when your OFFICE contains spectator seating.
~ Nik Posa


The only important shot you take is the next one. Because no matter how hard you try, that is the only one you can still have an effect on!
~ Jason Bumblis

On a player passing up an open shot: "You miss 100% of the shots that you don't take" ~Joe Ledbetter,Favorite Basketball Quotes #3

You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.
~Bobby Knight

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

Basketball is the MTV of sports.
~Sara Levinson

I liked the choreography, but I didn't care for the costumes.
~Tommy Tune

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

The rule was "No autopsy, no foul.
~Stewart Granger

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

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

If you are going to take it to the bank, then you better cash it in.
~ Shannon Fish

Our centers spread the floor, shoot the three and block shots. We can play pick and pop.
~ Steve Nash

My best move is probably my pull up jump shot.
~ Steve Nash


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


Just remember, their fans think their players are supermen. Well we're the kryptonite, and we're gonna win.
~Jim Larranaga

Not only is there more to life than basketball, there's a lot more to basketball than basketball.
~Phil Jackson


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

I'm the basketball version of a gravedigger.
~ Dennis Rodman

My biggest win was getting the meal money bumped from $5 to $7.
~Bob Cousy

Our offense is like the pythagorean theorem: There is no answer!
~ Shaquille O'Neal

People are threatened by me. Rich white, rich blacks, it doesn't matter.
~Dennis Rodman

People say that, but I think the NBA was bigger than Larry Bird and Magic Johnson.
~ Oscar Robertson

People still cheat on their wives, that hasn't fallen out of fashion. We all speak of it badly, but it has not fallen out of fashion.
~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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