Shoot The Ball Quotes

#1. My motto is, 'When in doubt, shoot the ball'

J. R. Smith

#2. You see a lot of European influence coming in with bigger guys having a larger skill set, shoot the ball, handle the ball, pass the ball. I'm hoping that'll develop into something I can do.

Kelly Olynyk

#3. They have so fundamentally flawed techniques it's ridiculous. They shoot the ball flat. They all stand upright, there's just so many things they do incorrectly.

Rick Barry

#4. Steph is scary. I've never seen anyone who can shoot the ball off the dribble like him. He got it going in 4th. Every game is different.

LeBron James

#5. Ronaldo was my hero. I loved watching players like Zidane, Ronaldinho and Rivaldo, but Ronaldo was the best striker I've ever seen. He was so fast he could score from nothing and could shoot the ball better than anyone I've ever seen.

Lionel Messi

#6. 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

#7. Day after day you find a way to make this grown man cry.

Keith Urban

#8. There are times when I am directing, and there are a couple of moments I didn't get the way I wanted, but I know I still have other angles to shoot and I have to be done by noon; I move on.

Alan Ball

#9. Unless you plan to out-rebound and out-shoot everyone you play, then you better learn to handle the ball.

Henry Iba

#10. The only thing I insist that everybody do is there has to be a basketball court in every game I do, and - with one exception, I let them get away with it once - you can actually shoot a ball through the basket in every game I've made.

Warren Spector

#11. There's nothing better than when a man is in tune with who he is.

Ciara

#12. College coaches want to power the ball inside, they want (their post players) to power the ball up, but no one can shoot from that 15-foot area anymore.

Oscar Robertson

#13. 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

#14. When you're that resigned and oppressed you're already dead. It shows the genocide was prepared for too long. I detest this fear. These victims of genocide had been psychologically prepared to expect death just for being Tutsi. They were being killed for so long that they were already dead.

Philip Gourevitch

#15. I take the ball, I go wide, I cross, I shoot, but when the moment beckons, I am ready to make the difference.

Thierry Henry

#16. Man, I did love this game. I'd have played for food money ... I used to love traveling on the trains from town to town. The hotels ... brass spittoons in the lobbies, brass beds in the rooms. It was the crowd, rising to their feet when the ball was hit deep. Shoot, I'd play for nothing!

Ray Liotta

#17. We become moral when we are unhappy.

Marcel Proust

#18. I can shoot a three pointer in basketball, and I can kick a soccer ball.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

#19. I was supposed to take the ball out. I told coach there's no way I'm taking the ball out, unless I can shoot it over the backboard and it goes in. I told him, 'Have somebody else take the ball out, give me the ball, and everybody get out of the way.'

LeBron James

#20. The three-ball is an easy shot if you're uncontested, but when they know you can shoot, it's a lot harder to get off.

Chris Copeland

#21. I have many women executives. I always have. When I was back in the construction days, the big construction days, I had women in charge of big developments.

Donald Trump

#22. I wouldn't say I'm a ball hog. I'm a shooter. I don't necessarily hog the ball, but I put them up, though. I definitely much rather shoot it than pass it. That's just how I am.

Kobe Bryant

#23. If a director brings a guy to their movie who does improv, they've got to let him do what he does - otherwise it's like bringing Michael Jordan to your basketball team and telling him to just pass the ball and don't shoot.

J. B. Smoove

#24. Obviously, I know what I'm best at: catch-and-shoot. But I can put the ball on the floor.

Jason Terry

#25. The Kurd stood waiting like an ancient debt.

William Peter Blatty

#26. The flesh is sweeter, where the creature has some chance for its life; for that reason, I always use a single ball, even if it be at a bird or a squirrel; besides, it saves lead, for, when a body knows how to shoot, one piece of lead is enough for all, except hard-lived animals.

James F. Cooper

#27. Either you're going to shoot us or you're not. The ball always lands on red or black, never both.

V. Alexander

#28. Don't know how many minutes I stood there. It was precisely the comfort she seemed to need this night. If only she had known to ask, or I to give, we could've done away with the blindfold ... Thank God for the blindfold. She

Abraham Verghese