All winter long, I am one for whom the bell is tolling; I can arouse no interest in basketball, Indoor fly casting or bowling; The sports pages are strictly no soap! And until the cry Play Ball! I simply mope.

-Nash, (Frederic) Ogden
  Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

   Basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until theysetthebasket umbilicus-high and returnthegiraffes to the zoo.

-Nash, (Frederic) Ogden
Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

Nietzsche was so intelligent and advanced. And that's how I am. I'm the black, basketball-playing Nietzsche.

-O'Neal, Shaquille
  On himself, having previously likened himself to Aristotle. In Book, Mar/ Apr.