The invention of basketball was not an accident.  It was
developed to meet a need.  Those boys simply would not play
"Drop the Handkerchief-James Naismith

This is the second most exciting indoor sport, and the other
one shouldn't have spectators-Dick Vertleib

There are really only two plays:  Romeo and Juliet, and put
the darn ball in the basket-Abe Lemons

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

When it's played the way is spozed to be played, basketball
happens in the air; flying, floating, elevated above the
floor, levitating the way oppressed peoples of this earth
imagine themselves in their dreams-John Edgar Wideman