Hoop Quotes

I like to get out and get up the court, using my speed and aggressiveness toward the hoop.

I’m surprised when the ball doesn’t go into the hoop. I think I should make every shot.

I would walk around in all these cities we lived in because my dad would move around so much. I would just walk the streets with a ball in my hand, and my mom holding my other handing waiting to find a hoop to play in. That was my first love of basketball.

I always say, it’s not the shoes; it’s the player. If you can hoop, you can hoop.

I loved the city of Chicago, and I love the Reinsdorfs. I’m forever grateful for them in taking a chance on me, allowing me to become the player that I am today. It’s still incredible to me that I got to hoop in a Bulls jersey.

Sometimes you’ve just got to will it into the hoop.

I’m just trying to look at different ways to see how the ball can go in the hoop.

It was not appropriate for me to wear anything like a bustier or to be sexy. It was big hair and hoop earrings and jean jackets.

Basketball is basketball. And whether it’s male, or female, or has any other label attached to it… that really doesn’t matter to me. It really doesn’t matter who’s playing. Hoop is hoop. Game is game. If you have it, I’ll recognize it. Period.

She’s not happy about the life she is living but to jump through the hoop would mean to succumb to death.

I have a song that’s called ‘Rap Dreams, Hoop Dreams’. Besides education, everybody’s got hoop dreams from day one in rap. Rap, sports, music have so much of an impact on the world.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. My job is to come out here and hoop, and that’s what I’m going to do.

I love having my hoop earrings. Just regular gold hoops.

Football has end zones and goal posts; basketball has the hoop, and hockey the goal cage. Baseball is the only game with an imaginary box: the strike zone, which the umpire determines at his own discretion.

My grandma used to have a backyard and we put a hoop, a shaky hoop, up there. We used to just shoot at it. We shot at it so many times, we broke it. We had to get a better one, because that one wasn’t good at all.

I’m the little dog who goes the wrong way – under the hoop.

Basketball players, the good ones, are no one-shot specialisls. This is a game which puts a premium on your ability to hit that hoop consistently, and to excel in it you’ve got to have a variety of shots.

So I took the bright red stick and at the center of the nation’s hoop I thrust it in the earth.

My first toy hoop was a Dr. J model!

It’s never like I go sneaker shopping just to get shoes for a hoop game.

I can’t control what the other team’s gonna feel. I’m just gonna go out there and hoop, and whoever takes it to heart and takes their losses salty, I can’t do anything about that.

I play basketball. I need a jersey and I need some shorts that I feel comfortable in. I’m trying to hoop, not go to a fashion show on the court.

I know how to put the ball in the hoop.

The Kaws IV is terrible. That’s a bad hoop shoe. That suede rubs against your feet. I had to triple my socks. The leather on the inside is a no-go.

Wearing one hoop earring and playing with the androgyny – that’s who I am. That’s what I like to do. And I feel the world should see that. I’m not going to put a shield up or be more feminine to make people feel comfortable.

My biggest thing I’ve learned is just putting time into getting ready. When we’re young, you just go on the court and just hoop. But I think as you get older, it’s more about, making sure everything is firing and making sure everything is ready to go and warmed up.

The teachers told me I wouldn’t amount to anything because I was a bad kid. But I knew I could still hoop.

My grandfather built my first hoop. It was a peach basket up against a tree, and we played in the dirt. I couldn’t have been more than 6 when he put it up, and I just started playing.

I love to hoop and you can never get better just by sitting on the bench.

I just want to hoop freely.

All we can do is come in here and hoop, play hard, stay competitive and try to win.

You might get fouled and have a no-call, but let’s still go out and hoop. Just beat them up the other way, and that’s with the scoreboard.

Jumping through any hoop or taking advantage of any desperate situation that comes up just to sell a product is harmful. It is.