Basketball Shot Quotes

#1. Given a full summer to practice basketball, and especially my jump shot, I know that I could play in the NBA and do well.

Tony Gonzalez

#2. Someone created the box score, and he should be shot.

Daryl Morey

#3. Teenage boys fall in love with girls who have blond hair and blue eyes. Basketball coaches fall in love with players who have a cerebral court sense and a great jump shot.

John Feinstein

#4. Shot fakes and ball fakes work. No one uses more than Wisconsin. It's amazing how many people don't use them

Bo Ryan

#5. Switch if you have to! It's not the mismatch that beats you, it's the open shot!

Rick Majerus

#6. Reverse the ball one time for a good shot, two times for a great shot, three times for a layup.

John Wooden

#7. I compare the pressure of a golf shot with making an extra point in basketball. The player starts from a full stop, and that rim doesn't move.

Harvey Penick

#8. My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.

Hakeem Olajuwon

#9. I was a roving guard on the Lowell Hebrew Community Center's girls' basketball team all through high school. My specialty was stealing the ball, but my only shot was a lay-up.

Elinor Lipman

#10. We're going to miss Damon. He was a great shooter ... He got what he wanted, but he gave up a lot. No more night life, no more warm weather and no more a lot of media attention ... I guess this was his first shot at getting something big. I guess he had to take it.

Shaquille O'Neal

#11. Get the kids to understand that they shouldn't worry about who makes the shot, only whether or not the shot is made

Pete Carril

#12. In the closing seconds of every game, I want the ball in my hands for the last shot - not in anybody else's, not in anybody else's in the world.

Larry Bird

#13. Winning a postseason game is like winning five regular season games. There is just no feeling like it. Everything is magnified. Every free throw, turnover, shot and play.

Don Meyer

#14. I make the game easy. Double and triple me, I'll kick it out to you for a wide-open shot. I'll add years to your career.

Shaquille O'Neal

#15. Kobe Bryant is my favorite basketball player. He takes risks. He goes for the shot. He isn't cautious with whatever he does.

Haley Joel Osment

#16. I'm not the guy who's afraid of failure. I like to take risks, take the big shot and all that.

Stephen Curry

#17. I believe that whatever we have, regardless of a trade being done or not, I feel we have a shot. I've just got to believe that we're going to be all right. I've got to just play basketball.

Allen Iverson

#18. My players on defense must have a hand-up on every shot. If not, they run sprints.

Rick Majerus

#19. The mismatch is not what gets you beat. What gets you beat is giving up the uncontested, open shot.

Rick Majerus

#20. Just because we play in the NBA or coach in the NBA doesn't mean we are not human. We are supermen. For me, getting shot is scary.

George Karl

#21. They shot the ball well early. What comes out of the microwave hot doesn't always stay hot. I know, because I eat bagels in the morning.

Shaquille O'Neal

#22. President Obama recently sat down with ESPN and said the NCAA should reduce the shot clock for basketball games. Then he said, 'And while we're at it, is there any way they can reduce the 'being president clock?'

Jimmy Fallon

#23. A hook shot kisses the rim and hangs there, helplessly, but doesn't drop and for once our gangly starting center boxes out his man and times his jump perfectly, gathering the orange leather/from the air like a cherished possession.

Edward Hirsch

#24. The quality of the pass leads directly to the quality of the shot

Pete Carril

#25. The first time I shot the hook, I was in fourth grade, and I was about five feet eight inches tall. I put the ball up and felt totally at ease with the shot. I was completely confident it would go in. I've been shooting it ever since.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#26. In going for the last shot of the game most people wait too long to take the shot. Give yourself a chance to get the first shot and tap the ball in. Your players are normally inside the defense.

Norm Sloan

#27. I'm going to be working on my shot. Working on extending my range. Keep working on everything, and really studying the game.

Blake Griffin

#28. The first shot does not beat you.

Chuck Daly

#29. The players I respected most were the toughest players, not those who talked a good game or blocked a shot and acted like a fool.

Jay Bilas

#30. The biggest scandal I was ever involved in was - in high school, at a basketball game, I shot and scored for the other team.

Darby Stanchfield

#31. It was a cheap shot. They won the game, move on. My thing is, I don't ask for a lot, but I demand my respect, especially from a guy like that.

Shaquille O'Neal

#32. Sometimes I screw up in the game, I miss a shot or I miss a rebound, and I fight myself. I am like, 'Why I miss that shot? Come on, what are you doing?' I am fighting myself.

Mehmet Okur