Texas Basketball

Texas is as odd as it is vast. - Henry Rollins

Humanity is just a virus with shoes. - Bill Hicks

Sports do not build character; they reveal it. - Unknown

Parts of Texas look like Kansas with a goiter. - Unknown

I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics. - Molly Ivins

I did not have 3,000 pairs of shoes. I had 1,060. - Imelda Marcos

When I'm feeling athletic, I go to a sports bar. - Paul Clisura

Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq. - Fran Lebowitz

Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up. - Bill Vaughn

Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans. - Ed Gillespie

You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans. - George Carlin

News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute. - Jessica Savitch

These days there are not many sports owners who have ever worn the jockstrap. - George Steinbrenner

I love sports. Whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio. - Gerald R. Ford

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. - Mark Twain

Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may. - Sam Houston

How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design? - Kinky Friedman

By the time they're ready to be thrown away, most shoes are thoroughly comfortable. - Andy Rooney

I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey. - Jeremy London

What you are as a person is far more important that what you are as a basketball player. - John Wooden

If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him by asking? - John Gunther

Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called 'walking.' - George W. Bush

The definition of insanity in Texas is so insane that it's impossible to be insane in Texas. - Malcolm McDowell

Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes. - Elvis Presley

I'm from Texas, and one of the reasons I like Texas is because there's no one in control. - Willie Nelson

Most of my memories of Texas are of mosquitoes, watermelons, crickets, and my brother teasing me. - Robin Wright

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented. - Molly Ivins

Men forget everything; women remember everything. That's why men need instant replays in sports. - Rita Rudner

Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas. - Ian Fleming

You know you're old when someone compliments you on your alligator shoes, and you're barefoot. - Phyllis Diller

I don't think I'm a celebrity. I'm just a guy from east Texas who loves cars and airplanes. - Carroll Shelby

When I make a vow to God, then I would suggest to you that's even stronger than a handshake in Texas. - Rick Perry

Old age is when you resent the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated because there are fewer articles to read. - George Burns

I played basketball in high school, and I love watching sports - I'll watch everything except maybe hockey. - Andy Roddick

Basketball develops individuality, initiative, and leadership. Now get out there and do exactly what I tell you to. - Dick Vitale

The reason gas prices are so high is because the oil is in Texas and Oklahoma and all the dipsticks are in Washington. - Yakov Smirnoff

Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. After that, who cares? He's a mile away and you've got his shoes. - Billy Connolly

Basketball, a game which won’t be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus high and return the giraffes to the zoo. - Ogden Nash

You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up. - Patrick Swayze

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. - John Leonard