Top 133 Hoop Quotes & Sayings

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.

The player who puts the ball through the hoop has ten hands.

I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being. And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy.

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

I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.

You have to get through the Hamlet hoop as a young actor. Your classical qualifications are based on the quality of your Hamlet. And then, as an older actor, you have to get through the Lear hoop. And I'm approaching the Lear hoop.

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

'Hoop Dreams' brought us back to our roots in veríté filmmaking. What we saw in the powerful emotional scenes within it - at nearly three hours long and with no star power - was an outreach to a different and more important audiences. There were the similarly involved folks who saw it that were part of the struggle, but there was also a new audience that weren't empathetic or sympathetic to the people we were portraying. They would never watch a film about inner city families, but they watched 'Hoop Dreams.'

What is so fascinating about sitting around watching a bunch of pituitary cases stuff a ball through a hoop?

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

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

None of our films look alike, we are very dialectical in our approach to each one, and 'Hoop Dreams' was no exception. That's what I love about documentary filmmaking, we never know where the story is going, we don't know what is going to happen next, and we're inside a culture of people that you have to figure out in many ways. It's a relationship between what you thought might have been the story, and what happens in the 'field.' Out of that comes the story, which was exactly what happened with 'Hoop Dreams.'

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

Yes, I backed the hula hoop. And I had a lot of other people come to me with ideas that turned out well

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

I can Hula-Hoop and read a book at the same time.

Hoop Dancer is a rendering of my understanding of the process by which one enters into timelessness -- that place where one is whole.

Passing is contagious. There's nothing better than making the pass that gives someone an easy hoop.

Bump in my hoopty hoopty hoop. I own that. And I aint payin my rent this month. I owe that.

I just want to hoop freely.

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

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.

Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation, and so long as the hoop was unbroken the people flourished.

I think the Greeks invented sports as an antidote to philosophy. In sports there are absolute rules. It's not, What about this? What about that? Either you're safe or you're out. It's ten yards or it's not. It's in the hoop or out of the hoop. It's certain.

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 have a lot of friends who have hula-hoops, it's like a mixture of dance and athletics and exercise, meditation. It's a healthy hobby I think. I can do a few tricks, I can hoop from my neck and shoulders, and I can do a few moves, a few tricks! I can walk through the hoop whilst it's spinning. I feel like there's definitely an interest in promoting the hula-hoop as an important pastime!

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!

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

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

I hoop - I play basketball. I'm challenging any rapper.

I'm funkier than a locker room after a hoop game.

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

But from the hoop's bewitching round, Her very shoe has power to wound.

We are all connected to each other, in a circle, in a hoop that never ends.

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

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

The hoop is there to remind us not to jump through it, not to submit to someone else's control.

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.

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

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.

I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

The computer is the most extraordinary of man's technological clothing; it's an extension of our central nervous system. Beside it, the wheel is a mere hula-hoop.

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.

There's a ball. There's a hoop. You put the ball through the hoop. That's success.

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.

A child walked by, rolling a metal hoop that made a sound of autumn.

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

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.

I know how to put the ball 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.

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

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

And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people as one of many hoops that made one circle.

I used to be another little fellow with some hoop dreams / Now I got the game laced up, shoe strings.

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

Sycorax has grown into a hoop

Yes, I backed the hula hoop. And I had a lot of other people come to me with ideas that turned out well.

I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way-under the hoop.

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?