Quotes On Shooting A 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. It is the '94 race which in many ways allowed Ted Kennedy to become his own man rather than the 'third brother.' He had to reach down and win it on his own.

Chuck Todd

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

Raekwon

#4. 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

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

Jason Kidd

#6. Trying to find a human side to the character is a way to give them a chance to have people like them.

Tom Ellis

#7. 'Fahrenheit 9/11' is astounding. Not so much as a film - although it is cunning and moving - but as an event.

John Berger

#8. We see things not as they are, we see them as WE are.

Morrie Camhi

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. It's better to be the rooster than the feather duster.

Jimmy Spithill

#12. 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

#13. Though cruel now, it serves a deeper kindness, Wise to the larger call of growth. It invites us to humility And the painstaking work of acceptance So

John O'Donohue

#14. I ain't no joke, I used to let the mic smoke,
Now I slam it when I'm done and make sure it's broke.

Rakim

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

Jeff Van Gundy

#16. Computer dating is fine, if you're a computer.

Rita Mae Brown

#17. For me, I want to tell stories that will affect my children in a positive way, that they can be proud of me for working on and doing. I want to be alight in the world. There's enough darkness.

Michael Landon Jr.

#18. If you need to force yourself to put a book down to breathe, you know it's a good one ;)

H.A. Kotys

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

LeBron James

#20. The dancer's trembling heart must bring everything into harmony, from the tips of her shoes to the flutter of her eyelashes, from the ruffles of her dress to the incessant play of her fingers.

Federico Garcia Lorca

#21. Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.

William S. Burroughs

#22. 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

#23. And sometimes you lie to me and sometimes I lie to you And there isnt a thing you could possibly do All these half-destroyed lives Arent as bad as they seem but now i see blood and I hear screams then I wake up and its just a bad dream ...

Michael Grant

#24. 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

#25. I don't take breaks, man. In the past, I used to spend my free time getting in trouble, and now I spend it working on my music. If I'm not playing drums with my cover band, Chevy Metal, I'm working on songs for myself.

Taylor Hawkins

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

Norm Stewart

#27. Maybe it was the challenge of flight, the opportunity to fly, the competition of summer camp and the inspiration and discipline of West Point. I think all of those things helped me to develop a dedication and inspired me to get ahead.

Buzz Aldrin

#28. 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