Texas Basketball

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

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

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

In sports, every day you can be the hero or the goat. - Geoff Stults

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

The one thing children wear out faster than shoes is parents. - John J. Plomp

I'm super laid back. I'm from Texas. I love my family. - Selena Gomez

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

In Texas it's always hot, dry, sunny, not a cloud in the sky. - Piper Perabo

We also sleep in separate beds. Hers is in California and mine is in Texas. - Red Skelton

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

Being from Texas, I would say I favor a pair of jeans you can wear some boots with. - Jensen Ackles

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

They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God, all they found were shoes. - Imelda Marcos

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

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

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

There are only 3 true sports: mountain climbing, bull fighting and auto racing. All the rest are games. - Ernest Hemingway

Golf is like any other sports competition. There is not a whole lot of point to it unless someone suffers. - Kevin Wohl

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

You can take the girl out of Texas but not the Texas out of the girl and ultimately not the girl out of Texas. - Janine Turner

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

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