Top 40 Hoop Quotes

Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel first championed my film, ‘Hoop Dreams,’ which was essential to its success. Roger remained a great supporter of my work throughout my career, and I’ll never forget him tweeting about ‘The Interrupters’ right before its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in 2011.

I was a young kid, and the YMCA was my second home, where my mom was dropping me off for seven, eight hours. I’d spend the day doing what I love: hoop.

I love my headscarf. I wear my head wrap every day with my hoop earrings.

From the beginning of time, all I’ve ever done is hoop, and this culture of sneakers has always been a part of it.

In real life, I’m very different from Sarah Dunn. She’s from the North. I grew up in the South. I wear big hoop earrings. I love me some makeup, and that’s not her at all.

Shields were generally made of wood, covered with leather, or some similar substance. To secure them, in some sort, from being cut through by the sword, they were surrounded with a hoop of metal.

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

I just wanna hoop and be out there with my soldiers. Go to war. Try to, to the best of my abilities, help us win.

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

I’m channelling my 14-year-old self. She’s thinking about putting on her big hoop earrings and baggy pants and going to the mall downtown.

Writing ‘Hoop Roots’ was a substitute or a surrogate activity. I can’t play anymore – my body won’t cooperate – so in the writing of the book, I was looking to tell a good story about my life and about basketball, but I was also looking to entertain myself the way that I entertain myself when I play.

And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father.

Defense has changed because you can’t hand-check guys anymore. Back in the day, if you drove to the hoop against the Bad Boy Pistons, you’d find yourself on the ground.

I was part of a writers’ collective with 21 writers and filmmakers called the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. We had our own office space in this old converted dog and cat hospital, and we had a basketball hoop outside. I’d bring my dog to work every day and write.

What I can’t wait to show the world when I make my NBA debut is a player who can handle, shoot, go hard to the hoop, and defend.

The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society’s dream, her own personal dream.

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.

If you played basketball growing up, you learn the importance of follow-through when you shoot: forming the gooseneck, waving good-bye to the ball, reaching into the far off hoop like it’s a cookie jar – think Michael Jordan’s last shot as a Bull.

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

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.

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

Most guards and forwards don’t really know how to play with their back to the hoop. It’s more and more an outside game.

I hoop – I play basketball. I’m challenging any rapper.

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

What I wanted to do in talking about basketball in ‘Hoop Roots’ was retrieve the game as something to participate in, not to watch.

The dog, the rabbit and the hoop all feature in the painting, and take the place of the orrery.

I’m lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I’ll make the effort.

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.

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

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.

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.

I like to hoop but I don’t want to be remembered for one thing, like ‘oh he just plays basketball.’

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.

If my teammates are out there to hoop, I’m going. I see the way these guys prepare for games. How can you not want to go be a part of that?

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

I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

You hoop with a certain expression. That’s your art. You’ve crafted it, so it is your art.

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.

It was no accident that I made ‘Hoop Dreams’ because it concerned a sport that I loved and hoped would be my dream, however far-fetched that turned out to be. Because of the success of that film, Hollywood pigeonholed me as a sports biopic guy, which led to ‘Prefontaine’ and two cable sports films.