Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Barkley

I don't create controversies. They're there long before I open my mouth. I just bring them to your attention.

Charles Barkley

People say I eat a lot. I really don't. More or less I just eat all the time.

Charles Barkley

When you read the book you see that these guys aren't holding any punches. They're straightforward. They're honest. They're giving you their honest opinion.

Charles Barkley

I want her to understand that it's going to be a factor in her life. I just want her to know that (racism) does exist, and I want her to always be diligent, and if she sees it, address it and fight it.

Charles Barkley

All I know is, as long as I led the Southeastern Conference in scoring, my grades would be fine.

Charles Barkley

I don't how anybody taller than 6-4 can sit in those seats. And the airline executives don't give a damn 'cause they never walk back there in the first place. I don't fly first class because I have a lot of money. I do it because I need the room.

Charles Barkley

You know what's amazing to me? America. There have been so many people who have stepped up, and I'm just proud to be an American. Yeah, there were some mistakes made, but I don't play the blame game. Let's move forward and rebuild New Orleans.

Charles Barkley

He's got to bring something stronger than that. That's like bringing milk to a bar, it's not strong enough

Charles Barkley

I always laugh when people ask me about rebounding techniques. I've got a technique. It's called just go get the damn ball.

Charles Barkley

You know what I always say about basketball whenever anybody tried to tell me the Knicks are gonna be good: They're old. Old people don't get healthy. They die.

James Worthy

I played basketball to try to get my parents from working so hard.

Bobby Knight

Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.

Bobby Knight

A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.

Bobby Knight

If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for.

Bobby Knight

Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.

Bobby Knight

As I've said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators - not recently - fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.

Bobby Knight

Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.

Bobby Knight

I've always felt that, you know, the Almighty has a lot of things to do other than help my basketball team.

Bobby Knight

When we're playing a good scoring center, we tell our team that it is not our defensive man's job to stop the center. It's the responsibility of our perimeter people to stop the ball from going inside.

Bobby Knight

If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.

Bobby Knight

In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them

Bob Cousy

The MVP award was very satisfying in terms of personal accomplishments, but the championship was the most important thing of all.

Bob Cousy

Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.

Bob Cousy

But as a coach I wanted to keep things from being too complicated.

Bridgette Wilson

I played varsity on all of them for four years. I'm 5'9 and that's not that tall for a center so I was a forward. I loved playing volleyball and basketball and track I was good at, but it stressed me out.

Bill James

The fact is that everybody around a college basketball game - the coaches, the announcers, even the referees at a lower level - calculates when the game is really over. They calculate it with intuition and guesswork.

When I heard that, my heart just broke. I don't see this stopping her basketball career (because) mentally, she's very strong.

Dennis Rodman

There is so much hypocrisy in sports.

Dennis Rodman

I spent money, I slept with women around the league, but I always kept my mind on the game.

Dennis Rodman

I lost $35,000 in less than a week at the Mirage in Las Vegas.

Dennis Rodman

I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy, mostly black women.

Dennis Rodman

I understand what rappers are talking about. I think rap is less about educating people about the black community and more about making money.

Dennis Rodman

I like to describe my life as a black hole with a little light out there.