Bonesville Daily SportByte™ — Memorable Quotes from Notable Sports Personalities

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Posted 12.31.12 — "You begin by bouncing a ball — in the house, on the driveway, along the sidewalk, at the playground. Then you start shooting: legs bent, eyes on the rim, elbows under the ball. ... No equipment is needed beyond a ball, a rim, and imagination." — Bill Bradley, basketball player and U.S. Senator [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 12.30.12 — "When you have played basketball for a while, you don't need to look at a basket when you are in this close. You develop a sense of where you are." — Bill Bradley, basketball player and U.S. Senator [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 12.29.12 — "When I get to the NBA, first thing I'm going to do, I'm gonna see my Momma. I'm gonna buy her a house. Gonna get my Dad a Cadillac ... so he can cruise to the games." — Arthur Agee, 14, from Hoop Dreams [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 12.28.12 — "What is so fascinating about sitting around watching a bunch of pituitary cases stuff a ball through a hoop?" — Woody Allen, writer, director, actor, from Annie Hall [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 12.27.12 — "Nobody is going to pay to come out and watch your players run up and down the court in their underwear." — Jerry Adelman, ticket broker, to a National Basketball Association executive in 1960 [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 12.26.12 — "This is, above all, a game of movement, of accuracy, of flow." — Harvey Araton, sportswriter, on basketball [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 12.25.12 — "This basketball bounces a certain way every time. ... Your behavior must be like a bouncing basketball. I have to be able to predict success based on your behavior and your behavior must be the same every time I call on you." — John Chaney, basketball coach [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 12.24.12 — "There's only one way to think about this game and one way to play it. That's all out, foot to the floor, pushing myself as hard as I can for as long as I can. I love playing basketball." — Ervin 'Magic' Johnson, basketball player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 12.23.12 — "There is absolutely no way the best team in the NCAA could even dream of beating the worst team in the NBA. ... You're talking about men vs. boys." — Bill Walton, basketball player and broadcaster [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 12.22.12 — "Winning in the NBA more often has to do with the psychological qualities than the physical ones." — David Halberstam, writer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 12.21.12 — "The Game itself is about skills, problems, answers, unselfishness, rotations ... it all comes back around." — Spike Lee, writer, director, actor, on basketball [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 12.20.12 — "Sometimes this game comes down to makes and misses." — Jeff Van Gundy, basketball coach [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 12.19.12 — "One thing about the top players in Harlem is that even a 30-point pickup game is a serious thing. You don't just play the game for the hell of it." — Sonny Johnson, street basketball player, Harlem [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 12.18.12 — "Life in basketball has a lot of suffering in it." — Pat Riley, basketball player and coach [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 12.17.12 — "It will be surprising to many to know how little the game has really changed throughout the years. People often believe that much of basketball is completely new, whereas in reality, the things that have been considered of recent development were embodied in the game almost from the very conception." — Dr. James Naismith, inventor of basketball [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 12.16.12 — "It's just a game played with a little round ball." — Hot Rod Hundley, basketball player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 12.15.12 — "In New York, you can always search and find a player better than you are, to push you to greater things. It is an entire subculture built on competition." — Al McGuire, basketball coach and broadcaster [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 12.14.12 — "I love the game because I think it's the one sport where the personal expression of the individual ballplayer comes across the best." — Woody Allen, writer, director, actor, on basketball [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 12.13.12 — "I haven't been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either." — Dave Barry, writer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 12.12.12 — "It's a fact that the city game is played when and where it was designed not to be played: outdoors, in the sweltering heat, when the gentler games of summer — baseball, tennis, golf, swimming —should rule." — Rick Telander, sportswriter [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 12.11.12 — "I couldn't imagine not playing basketball. To me, basketball is what life is all about." — Bill Walton, basketball player and broadcaster [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 12.10.12 — "Guards win games, but forwards win championships." — Anonymous [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 12.09.12 — "Basketball is the MTV of sports." — Sara Levinson, National Football League executive [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 12.08.12 — "Basketball is the city game." — Pete Axthelm, sportswriter [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 12.07.12 — "Basketball for me has always been a celebration of all the elements in life: the joy of teamwork, the pride of skill development, the enthusiasm of the crowd, the running and jumping and cheering and yelling at the refs." — Bill Walton, basketball player and broadcaster [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 12.06.12 — "When it's played the way it's spozed to be played, basketball happens in the air; flying, floating, elevated above the floor, levitating the way oppressed peoples of this earth imagine themselves in their dreams..." — John Edgar Wideman, novelist [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 12.05.12 — "Boys are playing basketball around a telephone pole with a backboard nailed to it. Legs, shouts. The scrap and snap of Keds on loose alley pebbles seems to catapult their voices high into the March air blue above the wires." — John Updike, novelist [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 12.04.12 — "Basketball embodies everything our culture now craves: excitement, speed, dynamic personalities, up-close relationships with stars, the exciting physical nature of the contest, and, of course, the incredible suspense that is possible with each game." — Bill Walton, basketball player and broadcaster [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 12.03.12 — "Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up." — Bill Vaughn, writer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 12.02.12 — "You've gotta have a lotta little boy in you to play this game." — Roy Campanella, baseball player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 12.01.12 — "You've gotta have b#lls to make it in this league." — Pam Postema, female baseball umpire [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]