"He's like a mini Charles Barkley." -- Bob Cousy, on Brandon Hunter, who is three inches taller than Barkley.
"I just have to like the way it looks. I don't even have to like the guy to buy his throwback. For instance, I have a Bill Walton throwback." -- Jason Williams.
"Carson, if you're watching, I would prefer to be called a big, young, strapping lad." -- Charles Barkley, on being called "cute" by Carson Kressley from "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy."
Isiah Thomas: "I've got some bad news. We're trading you to Phoenix."
Antonio McDyess: "What's the bad news?"
"Just tell me. Did you do it on purpose?" -- Danny Ainge, to then-Celtics coach Jim O'Brien after O'Brien hit his boss's Acura with his Escalade in the Celtics parking lot.
"People say my game wasn't where it should have been, but...sometimes (circumstances prevent) you from getting to a place where you want to be. So for Ray to say that I never stepped up is cowardly. Go ahead and print that. Because when I see Ray, I'm going to choke the (heck) out of him." -- Tim Thomas, on his tenure in Milwaukee.
"Tim Thomas is about excuses. It's always somebody else's fault. He said I was jealous? He should thank me for helping him get that contract. He said I didn't show? They traded me, they traded Ray, they traded Big Dog [Robinson] and Tim Thomas still wasn't the man on that team. Michael Redd became the man there. I think I'm doing quite well for myself here. Right now, he needs to focus on his game. Right now, he's not a good basketball player. And I like Tim Thomas. He just has too many damn excuses." -- Sam Cassell.
"I didn't go to the Super Bowl. I'm not even going to get into he said/she said between me and my coach, because that's not going to get me anywhere. The Houston Chronicle did a survey which said that I was considered one of the most popular athletes in Houston, so I'm pretty sure somebody would have seen me if I was there. Me and Jeff are cool. We had breakfast this morning." -- Steve Francis, on a disagreement between him and Jeff Van Gundy.
"We didn't have breakfast. What do you want me to say, 'I had scrambled eggs?'" -- Jeff Van Gundy.
"Kobe took over in the second half, especially in the third and fourth quarter." -- Magic Johnson, on TNT.
"I'm sitting in the house loading up the pump, loading up the Uzi, I've got a couple of M-16s, a couple of 9s and a couple of joints with some silencers on them. I'm just loading up clips, a couple of grenades, a missile launcher with a couple of missiles. I'm ready for war." -- Kevin Garnett.
"You can probably blame it on the thong Shaq had on before the game. It kind of traumatized everybody in the locker room." -- Kobe Bryant, on why the Lakers lost Game One of the NBA Finals.
"I read that in the papers and I was shocked. Next thing I know, my girl is calling me and saying, 'I didn't know we were getting married.'" -- Tracy McGrady, after Larry Brown said, wrongly, that T-Mac was skipping the Olympics to get married.