Famous Basketball Saying

Famous Basketball Saying

I truly love the game of basketball. I truly love the game. I wouldn’t be playing if I didn’t love the game.
Michael Jordan

I viewed it as a business, but I always viewed it as a game. An opportunity to show my skills, my basketball skills, amongst the best in the world.
Michael Jordan

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

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.
Barkley, Charles

I keep both eyes on my man. The basket hasn't moved on me yet.
Erving, Julius

They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me.
Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

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

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

Whenit'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

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

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine but leaving us when we cross into the shade.Christian Nevell Bovee

A friend is someone who leaves you with all your freedom intact.Unknown

"A good friend would bail you out of jail, but a true friend would be sitting next to you saying,""That was AWSOME""!!"
by Tessa



It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.Elbert Hubbard