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Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.
Sep 17, 2025
Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.
When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
Basketball has so much showboating you'd think it was invented by Jerome Kern.
We told Stanley Roberts to go on a water diet, and Lake Superior disappeared. Pat Williams When Xavier McDaniel plays against Orlando Wooldridge, it's a coach's dream - X vs O.
On the seemingly one-sided relationship between Michael Jordan and his shoe sponsors Nike- The company should change its name to Mike.
Do your work, but do your thing.
It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur.
I remember sitting down with the Rockets and saying, 'Yeah. I'm going to retire.' They said, 'Well, we'll give you $9 million.' And I said, 'You got a pen on you?'
After Michael Jordan had scored a play-off record 69 points - I'll always remember this as the night Michael and I combined to score 70 points.
In my prime I could have handled Michael Jordan. Of course, he would be only 12 years old.
Here's a six-foot-ten guy in sneakers and the lady's asking me, 'Profession?'
When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes.
On females officiating in the NBA -Incompetence should not be confined to one sex.
Part of the charm of basketball lies in the fact that it's a simple game to understand. Players race up and down a fairly small area indoors and stuff the ball into a ring with Madonna's dress hanging on it.
The way my team are doing, we could get Wilt Chamberlain in a trade and find out that he's really two midgets Scotch-taped together.
Going into a game against Lew Alcindor [later Kareem Abdul-Jabbar] is like going into a knife fight and finding there's no blade in your handle.
On how to make the game more exciting - Eliminate the referees, raise the basket four feet, double the size of the basketball, limit the height of the players to 5 feet 9 inches, bring back the centre jump, allow taxi drivers in for free and allow the players to carry guns.
But you have to understand, my beard is so nasty. I mean, it's the only beard in the history of Western civilization that makes Bob Dylan's beard look good.
Some things you just can't question. Like you can't question why two plus two is four. So don't question it, don't try to look it up. I don't know who made it, all I know is it was put in my head that two plus two is four. So certain things happen. Why does it rain? Why am I so sexy? I don't know.
John Stockton is one of the true marvels, not just of basketball, or in America, but in the history of Western Civilization!
I liked the choreography, but I didn't care for the costumes.
Son, looks to me like you're spending too much time on one subject.
I keep both eyes on my man. The basket hasn't moved on me yet.
I look at the NBA as a football game without the helmet.
I hate it. It looks like a stickup at 7-Eleven. Five guys standing there with their hands in the air.
I haven't been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either.
What is so fascinating about sitting around watching a bunch of pituitary cases stuff a ball through a hoop?
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.
I knew I was dog meat. Luckily, I'm the high-priced dog meat that everybody wants. I'm the good-quality dog meat. I'm the Alpo of the NBA.
Mick Jagger is in better shape than far too many NBA players. It's up in the air whether the same can be said of Keith Richards.
Tracy McGrady is doing things we've never seen from anybody - from any planet!
If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.
Our offense is like the pythagorean theorem: There is no answer!
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.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.
They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.
Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.
L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling was recorded on tape making racist comments. He now has been banned from the league for life. Great, just where Sterling wanted to end up - the blacklist.
When I dunk, I put something on it. I want the ball to hit the floor before I do.
I try to penetrate the lane like Steve Nash, pass like Jason Kidd, and handle the ball like Allen Iverson. Remember, I said 'try to'.
They shot the ball well early. What comes out of the microwave hot doesn't always stay hot. I know, because I eat bagels in the morning.
Basketball doesn't build character it reveals it.
The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy.
Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.
The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.
If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.
When I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I got things exactly correct. My dream was to become a pro.
You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.