Basketball Quotes and Sayings

The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.
~Bill Russell

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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

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

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The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
~Charles Barkley

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

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

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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

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

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Giving "Magic" the basketball is like giving Hitler an army, Jesse James a gang, or Genghis Khan a horse.
~Jim Murray

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

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
~Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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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

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

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

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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

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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

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

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Basketball is the MTV of sports.
~Sara Levinson

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

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