“Basketball is not played simply with X’s and O’s. It’s played with both trust and confidence.” --Legendary Detroit Pistons guard and current Indiana Pacers head coach Isiah Thomas

“Basketball can serve as a kind of metaphor for ultimate cooperation. It is a sport where success, as symbolized by the championship, requires that the dictates of community prevail over selfish impulses.”
--Bill Bradley

“If I was going to get beat up, I wanted to be indoors where it was warm.”
--Hall of Famer Tom Heinsohn, on why he picked basketball over football at Holy Cross

“How should we Democrats select the next presidential nominee? Smoke filled rooms? Brokered convention? National primary? Personally, I prefer jump shots from the top of the key.”
--Bill Bradley, during a roast of presidential candidates prior to the 1988 campaign

“Most people forget that Danny Biasone was the Wilbur Wright of basketball. Because he invented the 24-second clock, the game took off. Yet he was a man who never played the game.”
--Dolph Schayes