Funny Basketball Quotes - Page 3

• We told Stanley Roberts to go on a water diet, and Lake Superior disappeared. Pat Williams When Xavier McDaniel plays against Orlando Wooldridge, it's a coach's dream - X vs O.

  Mychal Thompson

  Funny, Basketball, Dream

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• Son, looks to me like you're spending too much time on one subject.

  Shelby Metcalf

  Funny, Basketball, Sports

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• The way my team are doing, we could get Wilt Chamberlain in a trade and find out that he's really two midgets Scotch-taped together.

  Gene Shue

  Funny, Basketball, Team

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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

  Basketball, Sports, Running

  Charles Barkley, Roy S. Johnson (1993). “Outrageous!”

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• Basketball has so much showboating you'd think it was invented by Jerome Kern.

  Art Spander

  Funny, Basketball, Thinking

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• Magic Johnson is the best player who plays on the ground, and Michael Jordan is the best player who plays in the air.

  John Paxson

  Funny, Basketball, Player

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• To win, you've got to put the ball in the macramé.

  Terry McGuire

  Inspirational, Basketball, Winning

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• Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.

  W. H. Auden

  Confusion, Confusing, Originality

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• Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing.

  Raymond Radiguet

  Trying, Originality, Failing

  Quoted by Jean Cocteau in his acceptance speech to the Académie Française, October 20, 1955.

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• John Stockton is one of the true marvels, not just of basketball, or in America, but in the history of Western Civilization!

  Bill Walton

  Basketball, Civilization, America

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• When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.

  Jean Cocteau

  Time, Originality, Behinds

  "Cock and harlequin: Notes concerning music". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1921.

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• When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes.

  John G. Shedd

  Inspirational, Echoes, World

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• I liked the choreography, but I didn't care for the costumes.

  Tommy Tune

  Basketball, Care, Costumes

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• Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.

  Jean Guitton

  Numbers, Originality, Individual

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• 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

  Inspirational, Basketball, Running

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• One man cannot make a team.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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• Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Ignorance, Empathy, Apathy

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• The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Innovation, Insightful, Novelty

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Works”, p.116

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• Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Originality, Clamour, Quarrels

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.11, Cambridge University Press

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

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Sports, Athlete

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• If you can walk with your head in the clouds and keep your feet on the ground, you can make a million dollars in the NBA.

  Gary Dornhoefer

  Funny, Basketball, Clouds

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• On his telepathic understanding with James Worthy- It's almost like we have ESPN.

  Magic Johnson

  Funny, Basketball, Understanding

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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

  Funny, Basketball, Balls

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• Mick Jagger is in better shape than far too many NBA players. It's up in the air whether the same can be said of Keith Richards.

  Bill Walton

  Funny, Basketball, Player

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• Many Americans follow pro basketball from November through June, for reasons that I found unexplainable, other than the fact that they were overly fascinated with soaring armpits.

  Dan Jenkins

  Funny, Basketball, June

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