Basketball quotes

“You'll play basketball my way. My way is hard.”
Josh Lucas - Don Haskins

Basketball is like poetry in motion, cross the guy to the left, take him back to the right, he's fallin' back, then just J right in his face. Then you look at him and say "What?".
Ray Allen - Jesus Shuttlesworth

“- Irwin 'Fletch' Fletcher: It's a championship Laker watch.
- Cindy Mae: Oh, are you a Laker?
- Irwin 'Fletch' Fletcher: I used to date one - only thing I have to remember him by.”
Chevy Chase - Irwin 'Fletch' Fletcher
Constance Shulman - Cindy Mae

“You gotta have presence on the court. Presence like a cheetah rather than a chimp. Sure, they both got it, but Chimpy gotta jump his nuts around to get it. The shy cheetah moves with total nonchalance, stickin' it to them in his sexy, slow strut. Me? I play like a cheetah.”

Leonardo DiCaprio - Jim Carroll

“The conspiracies we've believed for all these years are true? The NBA really did institute the three point shot to give white boys a chance?”
Eddie Griffin - Undercover Brother

“- Shawn: LeBron is a better rebounder and passer.
- Russell Gettis: LeBron will never beat Jordan. Call me when LeBron has six championships.
- Shawn: That's your only argument?
- Russell Gettis: It's the only argument I need, Shawn!”
Adrian Kali Turner - Shawn
Jason Segel - Russell Gettis

“- Mookie: Pino, who's your favorite basketball player?
- Pino: Magic Johnson.
- Mookie: And who's your favorite movie star?
- Pino: Eddie Murphy.
- Mookie: And who's your favorite rock star? Prince. You're a Prince freak.
- Pino: Boss. Bruce.”
Spike Lee - Mookie
John Turturro - Pino

“It doesn't matter how you play the game, it's whether you win or lose. And even that doesn't make all that much difference.”

Jay Tarses - Coach Finstock

“I speak, you listen. I don't wanna hear 'can't' or 'won't' or 'Coach, I'm bleeding'. I don't wanna hear anything except the basketball bounce!”

Josh Lucas - Don Haskins

“I think you should stick to basketball. You know why? You can't rap!”

Morris Chestnut - Tracey Reynolds

“- Bugs Bunny: we need your help!
- Michael Jordan: Yeah, but I'm a baseball player now!
- Bugs Bunny: Right. And I'm a Shakespearean actor.”

Billy West - Bugs Bunny
Michael Jordan - Himself

“Ever since I was a kid I've only loved one thing. That was playing ball. Do you understand what that's like, having that ball in your hand... It's like, It's like making sweet music with your game, only thing is you don't wanna hear the song.”
Derek Luke - Bobby Joe Hill

“Hey, hold your heads up. Hold your heads up! You wanna shake off that hate? It's your choice, Harry Flournoy. It's your choice, Jerry Armstrong, Togo, Cager, Hill. It's your choice. Shut them up. Win!”

Josh Lucas - Don Haskins

“C'mon, Michael! It's game time! Get your Hanes on, lace up your Nikes, grab your Wheaties and your Gatorade, and we'll pick up a Big Mac on the way to the ballpark.”
Wayne Knight - Stan Podolak

“- Michael Jordan: Okay, somebody steal the ball, give it to me, and I'll score before time runs out.
- Bill Murray: Don't lose that confidence, okay, paws and wings in here, all right!”
Michael Jordan - Himself
Bill Murray - Himself

“After a long day of crime fighting, I like to play a little basketball.”
Ron Fazio - The Toxic Avenger

“- Saleh: You came halfway around the world to watch me play this basketball?
- Jimmy Dolan: That's what I said.
- Saleh: Are you healthy up here?
- Jimmy Dolan: Never said that.”
Charles Gitonga Maina - Saleh
Kevin Bacon - Jimmy Dolan

“A good basketball player can make up for a lot if he has hands as fast as a gunfighter.”
Nick Benedict - Press Maravich

“You see this circle? The size of this circle represents everything that I know about basketball. But the size of this ball represents everything about the game that has never been discovered.”

Nick Benedict - Press Maravich

“Ain't no rule saying a dog can't play basketball.”
Jay Brazeau - Referee 1

“Do you care anything about basketball? The Knicks are out of the playoffs and I'm not entirely happy about that. The world is full of injustices. They either bother you or they don't. Me, they bother.”
Hermione Gingold - Elizabeth Rennick