Quotes About Free Throws

#1. If you want Shaq to be Shaq, you've got to remember that Shaq is known for wreaking havoc offensively - 26,000-plus points without consistently making free throws. Don't have me doing something I'm not used to doing. I ain't used to being a pick-setter. Let me badda-bing, badda-bang.

Shaquille O'Neal

#2. The only thing I pay attention to with free throws is what a guy does in the final four minutes of a game. If you can improve players' self-esteem and confidence, get them to relax, teach visualization and routine, they will shoot as well, or better, with the pressure on.

John Calipari

#3. I'm not the guy whose gonna shoot 10,000 free-throws until I'm Michael Jordan - and it did happen kind of accidentally that I said, "Okay, yeah, I'll try singing."

D.A. Wallach

#4. My thought has always been completion. Maybe you have to rebound better, shoot better, hit free throws, handle the ball, defend better. You have to do all those things in the course of a game.

Isaiah Thomas

#5. Basketball Rule #4

If you miss
enough of life's
free throws
you will pay
in the end.

Kwame Alexander

#6. You aren't going to win championships unless you make layups and free throws.

Don Meyer

#7. The designated hitter rule is like letting someone else take Wilt Chamberlain's free throws.

Rick Wise

#8. You've got to learn the footwork, the positioning, how to box out, how to pass, how to shoot your free throws. All these things are necessary, not to be the No. 1 player in the world, but maybe you can play against him.

Oscar Robertson

#9. Even monkeys fall out of trees.

J. F. Lawton

#10. I don't know if Barcelona have ever gone to a place like the Britannia Stadium and suffered the kind of onslaught from Tony Pulis' team of long throws and free-kicks or been up to a place like Blackburn and been beaten up by their long ball into the box.

Andy Gray

#11. I simply want to take a break and catch my breath. But I also think that, sometimes, the bravest thing you can do is to deliberately keep some time free and see what the world throws at you.

Ruth Wilson

#12. Your reputation is what influences people to think, feel and talk about you the way they do.

Rob Brown

#13. All of the designs on Minted are crowd-sourced from a global community of independent designers. We hold monthly design and art challenges that anyone in the world is welcome to enter.

Mariam Naficy

#14. The bad news is, we're all incomplete people. The good news is, Jesus loves incomplete people. And He wants us to know we can have complete joy by being secure enough in His love to reach out and love other incomplete people.

Lysa TerKeurst

#15. Man is a wolf to man.
[Lat., Homo homini lupus.]

Plautus

#16. I am very fond of the theatre. If I have only a kopeck in my pocket, I always go there. Most of my fellow-officials are uneducated boors, and never enter a theatre unless one throws free tickets at their head.

Nikolai Gogol

#17. Sometimes the more you try to focus on something, the less you really see it's beauty.
- Burnum (Aboriginal Guide)

Samuel L. Norman

#18. You stand up for your teammates. Your loyalty is to them. You protect them through good and bad, because they'd do the same for you.

Yogi Berra

#19. People who have cut their teeth on philosophical problems of rationality, knowledge, perception, free will and other minds are well placed to think better about problems of evidence, decision making, responsibility and ethics that life throws up.

Simon Blackburn

#20. Here the free spirit of mankind, at length,
Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place
A limit to the giant's unchained strength,
Or curb his swiftness in the forward race?

William C. Bryant

#21. There's an old saying about the truth setting you free. Don't buy it. Sometimes the truth slams the cell door shut and throws a thousand bolts.

Rick Yancey

#22. You don't have to live with whatever life throws you--or whatever you've gotten yourself into...
You can choose to Change Your Story!

Kirstin Leigh