Quotes About Basketball Shots

#1. We all have people in our lives we don't really choose as friends but with whom we're, well, lumbered, I suppose. Heart-sink friends.

Alexander McCall Smith

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

Rick Majerus

#3. I'm pretty much able to play any style. I'm not here to demand 40 or 50 shots. But I would like 30.

Shaquille O'Neal

#4. We play a different style than other teams. It's effective, but different. We run the floor, block shots and create turnovers.

Steve Nash

#5. My homies that are around me never give me that 'star pass.' I've hung out with some stars who are playing basketball and everyone let's them score all the baskets. Shooting pool, they let them make all the shots. My homies don't let me get away with that.

Jamie Foxx

#6. I'm not against taking shots, but I am against taking bad shots.

Henry Iba

#7. I'm looking for activity. I put players in and take them out based on effort and defense, not making or missing shots

Doc Rivers

#8. I wrote my first novel when my daughter was about six months old.

Gayle Forman

#9. I was just letting the shots fly. You know, I don't leave any bullets in the chamber.

Kobe Bryant

#10. You have to make shots to win basketball games and we didn't do that. You also have to get back on defense, so it was a double-whammy.

Gregg Popovich

#11. Crap on a stick.

Cameo Renae

#12. Most lay-ups and two foot jump shots around the goal are missed by not putting the ball up high enough on the backboard

Rick Majerus

#13. Basketball is a game of sacrificing yourself for the next guy, being a team that takes good shots, and taking the right shots

David Blatt

#14. If you're going to hire an assassin, let him go out and kill someone. I can't be Shaq taking six or seven shots.

Shaquille O'Neal

#15. You never make any of the shots you never take. 87% of the ones you do take, you'll miss too. I make 110% of my shots.

Larry Bird

#16. Without my Savior, I am nothing.

George Washington Carver

#17. Basketball is a team game. But that doesn't mean all five players should have the same amount of shots.

Dean Smith

#18. How should we Democrats select the next presidential nominee? Smoke filled rooms? Brokered convention? National primary? Personally, I prefer jump shots from the top of the key.

Bill Bradley

#19. They continue to criticize me for my outside shooting, but I continue to make outside shots.

LeBron James

#20. You create shots for yourself by what you do without the ball more than what you do after you get it

Steve Alford

#21. Good shooters take the shots; best shooters take most of the shots.

Don Meyer

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

Pete Carril

#23. There's discussion in athletics about how sport - where they say 'SportsCenter' has ruined the fundamentals of basketball because it's - it only applauds dunks and three point shots and blocks, and I think, you know, the cable news has done the same thing for politics.

Dan Pfeiffer

#24. So sweet and delicious do I become,
when I am in bed with a man
who, I sense, loves and enjoys me,
that the pleasure I bring excels all delight,
so the knot of love, however tight
it seemed before, is tied tighter still.

Veronica Franco

#25. Now, Betteredge, exert those sharp wits of yours, and observe the conclusion to which the Colonel's instructions point!" I instantly exerted my wits. They were of the slovenly English sort; and they consequently muddled it all

Wilkie Collins

#26. My art practice eventually arrived at a point where I had freedom from various limiting conditions; the institutional mindset is not airtight and isn't altogether ideologically programmed. There are ways of escaping.

Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

#27. There is an ironic paradox in that courage requires fear. Fear provides the opportunity for courage. However, one must be willing to face the hard demands of courage, confront that fear, and ultimately triumph over it.

Vincent B. "Chip" LoCoco

#28. Neighbor is no longer confined to the vocabulary of the individual. It is a national word. Modern inventions have annihilated distance. Commercial relations have broken down barriers of race and religion, and the family of nations is a recognized fact.

David Josiah Brewer

#29. The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

Henry Kissinger

#30. Richard Nixon's conversation was loaded with so many stories of all the foreign dignitaries he'd called upon in his career that he sounded like a guy who had pinioned his neighbors into watching his vacation slides.

Rick Perlstein

#31. I had some shots that I felt like I should've made; I just didn't make them. I'm not going to shoot the ball great every night.

Kobe Bryant