Quotes About Shooting Basketball

#1. You take lessons on how to better swing a golf club or a tennis racket, or to learn the proper techniques for shooting a basketball or throwing a curve ball, but what about running?

Danny Abshire

#2. As you keep shooting the ball, you become a better basketball player.

Raekwon

#3. Basketball is big stuff in New York. If you're good in it, everybody respects you. Nobody would want to ruin your shooting eye or your shooting arm.

Bob Beamon

#4. I have had some bad shooting games but that doesn't stop me from getting the ball to my teammates

Jason Kidd

#5. Always faithful.

Jay McLean

#6. They made it personal when they shot Pop. It is not business, it's personal.

Mario Puzo

#7. 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

#8. I missed 'em, sure enough, true and deep and hard, but the loving was stronger than the missing.--Joseph Johnson on p. 233 Some Kind of Courage

Dan Gemeinhart

#9. If you're struggling with your shooting, then do other things on the basketball court. Get steals, get assists, get rebounds-do anything on the court to help the team win.

Allen Iverson

#10. I was taught to play the game from a total team concept-to be able to do everything reasonably well and some things extraordinarily well. If I'm not shooting well, I'll try to be an asset in other ways-like defense, passing, rebounding, and hustle.

Rick Barry

#11. You know what? I knew that my God was bigger than his [about Muslims in Somalia]. I knew that my God was a real God and his was an idol.

William G. Boykin

#12. I didn't so much think I needed to address the shooting need. What we needed was somebody who could come in and play the two-three (shooting guard-small forward) spot. If he could've been a pure shooter, great. But if not, we still needed somebody to give us minutes there. I like the guys we've got.

Joe Dumars

#13. I'll close my eyes, so I won't see, all of the love that you don't feel for me.

Bonnie Raitt

#14. God loves us completely. And He knew us at our worst before He ever began to love us at all.

Rich Mullins

#15. Shooting percentage is just as much about decision making as it is about technique

Jeff Van Gundy

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

LeBron James

#17. Basketball teams, after the perfunctory lay-up drill, fall into the crowded isolation and personal style of 10 city kids shooting at the same basket or playing one-on-one.

Ted Solotaroff

#18. Art owes its origin to Nature herself ... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.

Giorgio Vasari

#19. 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

#20. Failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.

Lillian Hellman

#21. We're shooting 100 percent - 60 percent from the field and 40 percent from the free-throw line.

Norm Stewart