Basketball Sayings

Welcome to Basketball Sayings, the webpage that brings you a host of clever, inspirational, encouraging, and funny phrases, sayings, quotations and one liners from the famous about the great game. These are all free for you to use for non commercial purpose












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

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

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When I went to Catholic high school in Philadelphia, we just had one coach for football and basketball. He took all of us who turned out and had us run through a forest. The ones who ran into the trees were on the football team.
George Raveling

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

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There are really only two plays: Romeo and Juliet, and put the darn ball in the basket.
Abe Lemons

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They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.
Wilt Chamberlain

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

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