"To win, you've got to put the ball in the macramé."
Terry McGuire.

"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.

"I look at the NBA as a football game without the helmet."
Tom Tolbert.

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

"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.

"Fans never fall asleep at our games, because they're afraid they might get hit by a pass."
George Raveling.

"Basketball is like photography, if you don't focus, all you have is the negative."
Dan Frisby.

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

"Left hand, right hand, it doesn't matter. I'm amphibious."
Charles Shackleford.