Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up.
The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy.
They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.
We're shooting 100 percent - 60 percent from the field and 40 percent from the free-throw line.
Fans never fall asleep at our games, because they're afraid they might get hit by a pass.
What is so fascinating about sitting around watching a bunch of pituitary cases stuff a ball through a hoop?
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.
I haven't been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either.
I knew I was dog meat. Luckily, I'm the high-priced dog meat that everybody wants. I'm the good-quality dog meat. I'm the Alpo of the NBA.
Left hand, right hand, it doesn't matter. I'm amphibious.
I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.
You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.
The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need.
One man cannot make a team.
One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
Good, Better, Best. Never let it rest. Until your Good is Better, and your Better is your Best.
Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.
Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.
If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.
Some things you just can't question. Like you can't question why two plus two is four. So don't question it, don't try to look it up. I don't know who made it, all I know is it was put in my head that two plus two is four. So certain things happen. Why does it rain? Why am I so sexy? I don't know.
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