Basketball Quotes

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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 quote.
Basketball is like war, in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.
When you're the top dog, everybody wants to put you in the pound. - Charles Barkley quote.
When you're the top dog, everybody wants to put you in the pound.
Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath. - Wilt Chamberlain quote.
Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.
The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace. - Michael Jordan quote.
The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.
What is so fascinating about a group of pituitary cases trying to stuff the ball through a hoop?
Michael Jordan, "Air" to his compatriots, played a game 10 feet off the ground.  You needed the R. A. F. to stop him.  He only came down periodically to refuel. - Jim Murray quote.
Michael Jordan, "Air" to his compatriots, played a game 10 feet off the ground.  You needed the R. A. F. to stop him.  He only came down periodically to refuel.
It's ballet, hip-hop and kung fu.  The ballet is grace, the hip-hop is cool, and the kung fu is kill the opponent. - Shaquille O’Neal quote.
It's ballet, hip-hop and kung fu.  The ballet is grace, the hip-hop is cool, and the kung fu is kill the opponent.
Our offense is like the pythagorean theorem: There is no answer! - Shaquille O’Neal quote.
Our offense is like the pythagorean theorem: There is no answer!
The basketball is a tool that the black [man] has now, same as maybe once he had a plow.
When it's played the way is spozed to be played, basketball happens in the air, the pure air; flying, floating, elevated above the floor, levitating the way oppressed peoples of this earth imagine themselves in their dreams.
Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.

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Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball, and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. - John Leonard quote.
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball, and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

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We have forty-four defenses for him, but he has forty-five ways to score.