Basketball Center Quotes

#1. A fierce hatred of embarrassment ruled a surprising amount of the life of Moses Malone, the Hall of Fame basketball center.

Joseph Bottum

#2. Because [the Holy Spirit] is a spirit, [He] isn't limited by time or space. He can be everywhere at once. He is in the midst of the largest galaxy - and the smallest atom.

Billy Graham

#3. Basketball really had its origin in Indiana, which remains the center of the sport.

James Naismith

#4. I was a roving guard on the Lowell Hebrew Community Center's girls' basketball team all through high school. My specialty was stealing the ball, but my only shot was a lay-up.

Elinor Lipman

#5. Being called close-minded by religious people is a bit like being called yellow by a bunch of bananas.

Pat Condell

#6. 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

#7. 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.

Bridgette Wilson

#8. The first lesson a watcher learns is to separate truth from illusion. Because in the world of magicks, it's the hardest thing to do.

Joss Whedon

#9. Sennheiser HD280, Audio-Technica MTX-150, and V-MODA Crossfade 100. All

Mike Cernovich

#10. I'm the LCL - the Last Center Left. I've been doing the same things for 13 years, but now they're flopping and falling, and the refs are falling for it, too.

Shaquille O'Neal

#11. While there continues to be differences, the important point is that all citizens and elected officials use democratic and legal avenues for solving those differences.

Boris Trajkovski

#12. An acrobatic dunk will make it onto Sports Center. A simple, unspectacular bounce pass in the rhythm of the offense will not. System basketball has been replaced by players who want to be the system.

Phil Jackson

#13. Stephen A. Smith is the hardest-working man in sports show business. The ubiquitous basketball pundit appears on ESPN about 10 times a day as a regular on the show 'NBA Fastbreak,' a guest commentator on 'Sports Center,' and a pundit on 'ESPNEWS.'

Stephen Rodrick

#14. Guns don't feel nothin' about you, one way or t'other. No fair reason for you to feel bad towards them.

Dean Koontz

#15. A hook shot kisses the rim and hangs there, helplessly, but doesn't drop and for once our gangly starting center boxes out his man and times his jump perfectly, gathering the orange leather/from the air like a cherished possession.

Edward Hirsch

#16. I think I'm the only player who looks at each and every center and says to myself, 'That's barbecued chicken down there.'

Shaquille O'Neal

#17. If you are under control, you lose the danger of glimpsing an unknown realm.

Kazuaki Tanahashi

#18. Sometimes all you can do is react (Kevin Freeman)

Katie Kacvinsky

#19. President Obama filled in as the coach of his daughter Sasha's basketball team. Sasha evidently listened to her Dad, because all she did was drive straight down the center and piss everyone off.

Conan O'Brien

#20. Jason decided to stop yelling at his daughter and, instead, created a better story to invite her into.

Donald Miller

#21. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh & exciting - over & over announcing your place in the family of things.

Mary Oliver

#22. I mean you're only 26 in couple of days, although, you are now officially closer to thirty than twenty!

Ali Harris

#23. If you want to see a man come to his senses, try something like, Do you happen to carry a rubber in your wallet? Did I mention I'm not on the pill?

Catherine Ryan Hyde