Mirth Madness! Funny basketball sayings - full court humor. Go ahead, fill your bracket. We got plenty of game. No trash talk. Nothing but net! Swipe a few of these and your pool will be cool.
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A team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
- Coach Al McGuire
True: When Austin Peay University had a player named Fly Williams, the students would chant, “The Fly is open! Let’s go Peay!”
UK and Louisville are in the commonwealth of Kentucky, where basketball is an optional box for religious affiliation.
- Dana O’Neill, ESPN
Funny Basketball Sayings, Group 2
I have contempt for a game [football] in which players have to wear so
much equipment. Men play basketball in their underwear, which seems just
right to me.
- Anna Quindlen
Finish last in your league and they call you “idiot.” Finish last in medical school and they call you “doctor.”
- Abe Lemons
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.
- Charles Barkley
The referees request that regardless of how terrible the officiating is, don’t throw stuff on the floor.
- Billy Tubbs, when asked by the refs to address the crowd about throwing debris on the court. (Billy got a technical.)
The best thing about freshmen is they become sophomores.
- Al McGuire
The secret is to have eight great players, and four others who will cheer like crazy.
- Jerry Tarkanian
I hope he comes out for basketball.
- Kansas Coach Phog Allen, when told that Wilt Chamberlain had decided to go to Kansas
Funny Basketball Sayings
Group 3
The NBA is like a small sorority. We’re like brothers.
- Rashad Lewis
I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky player
We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.
- Jason Kidd, after joining the Dallas Mavericks
Nobody roots for Goliath.
- Wilt Chamberlain
I really appreciate this award, but I don’t ever want to win it again.
- Marcus Denmon, on winning the Sixth Man of the Team award for the Missouri Tigers
I’m a coach who believes in execution. Whenever I see [that player] shoot free throws, I want to execute him.
- Rick Pitino
He makes plays you can’t coach, and he makes plays that look like he’s never been coached.
- Bill Self on point guard Tyshawn Taylor
You have to treat it a lot like the sun. Looking at it for more than a few seconds is dangerous to your health.
- Jamar Samuels, on looking coach Frank Martin in the eye
When asked if Nate Archibald's "dominance" of the ball could hurt the Kings (his own team), Oscar Robertson looked amazed, then said, "The only way his style could hurt them is if he played against them."
(John) Wall is an excellent passer, a pretty good rebounder and a decent defender, but his ability to make a defense collapse into itself like a dying star makes him the best player in the country.
- Andy Glockner, Sports illustrated
I always like to get transfers, especially from the Pac-10. They already have their cars paid for.
- Jerry Tarkanian
I wouldn’t bank on it. I would still say, right now, he’s probably doubtful, but that could become questionable. But I don’t think it’s probable.
- Bill Self, on an injured player
Jeremy Lin may be the first person with an economics degree from Harvard who is doing something positive with his life.
- Andy Borowitz @BorowitzReport
I'd watch basketball more often if one player from each team had to carry a pool noodle at all times.
- Zachary? @GreenishDuck
Sorry, when I said I have the stamina of an NBA player in bed I meant I take 10 timeouts in the final 2 minutes.
- Terry F @daemonic3
Norm Stewart to Roy Williams: "We shouldn't stand too close together.”
Roy Williams: “Why not?”
Stewart:
“Well, there's a lot of your fans that don't like that you invited me
here, and a lot of my fans don't like it because they didn't want me to
accept the invitation. So don't let them get us with one shot."
In
sports, Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, whose racist
comments have sparked widespread outrage, is given the NBA’s harshest
possible punishment: season tickets to the Knicks.
- Dave Barry, 2014 Year in Review
Kentucky has several potential first-round picks who have impressed scouts by dribbling into five defenders and committing extremely athletic turnovers.
- Michael Rosenberg, Sports Illustrated
[This is] a Sweet 16 that's more stacked than a Cuban election.
- Rick Reilly, ESPN.com, on the 2012 March Madness
Jae Crowder has seven siblings, one of which you'll notice on television. He's just slightly larger than a Red Roof Inn.
- Rick Reilly, ESPN.com, on the Marquette post man
To keep in shape, Jae Crowder pulls SUVs with ropes. When SUVs aren't available, he uses his brother.
- Rick Reilly, ESPN.com, on the Marquette post man
The Badgers will try to slow it down against Syracuse. The Badgers run less than $50 panty hose.
- Rick Reilly, ESPN.com, on Wisconsin’s Badgers
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