Quotes About Basket

A lot of NBA owners sit at the midcourt. But we love being under the basket and seeing the players.

The paint is something we need to defend.

I still have my back to the basket because there's going to be times where I'm going to really have to score down low, but I'm really working on my face-up game because in the league, there's more space, and there's not double-teams and triple-teams coming at you like how it was in college.

This whole concept of basket chaat is so unique, and it is really yummy!

Most teams don't do anything. Really it's just take the ball out the basket, pick-and-roll, and run.

I have to be able to shoot the ball, I have to be able to dangerous not only going to the basket but on the perimeter.

I can shoot the basketball, I can get to the basket.

Obviously I haven't been shooting the ball as well as I want to, so I just try to take it to the basket and be aggressive and try to make a play.

You've gotta be able to score around the basket.

The three-point line changed everything and the players' ability to be able to make three-pointers changed how you attacked the basket.

Sometimes just to be there, my size helps me to protect the basket.

When I came to the league, back in Europe I was so much faster than the other guys, I was always penetrating. I didn't use my jump shot. When I came to the league it was tough to get to the basket. All those guys, they went under the pick-and-roll. It was long threes, especially for me coming from Europe.

My goal is to protect the basket. Most of the time, I won't block the shot but I'm going to affect the shot or I'm going to affect the way they think.

The basket was opened, and a ginger head emerged resentfully.

My mom used to keep all her Christmas cards in a basket bedecked with red ribbon, and I loved to look at them all and read all the letters.

MEEEEE!" it bellowed. She jumped back again, dropping the basket lid. What the devil? She opened it again, and looked down at the wee thing. "MEEEEEE!" "Good heavens, you are loud," she told it. "I thought cats were supposed to say 'meow.' There are two syllables in meow." "MEEEEEE!" It corrected vehemently and with great singularity.

Peace, ... is crucial, because my government aims to hasten Mindanao's development by transforming it into the country's food basket.

Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.

wastepaper basket n. user-friendly, space-effective, flexible deskside sortation unit Government officials in Toronto, Canada, paid $123.80 [Canadian] each for "user friendly, space effective, flexible deskside sortation units," more commonly known as wastepaper baskets.

The Sumerian Tablets speak of King Sargon the Elder being found as a baby floating in a basket on the river and brought up by a royal family. Exodus speaks of Moses being found as a baby floating in a basket on the river by a royal princess and how he was brought up by the Egyptian royal family. The list of such 'coincidences' goes on and on.

So was it a political mistake for Obama to put so many eggs in the health-care-reform basket? Well, a negative decision from the Supreme Court will certainly make it appear so.

I've written for the waste basket so often that we've become friends. He writes too, but it's mostly garbage.

That's how I grew up. Just play defense - and make a basket.

The French children carried Baby Mine and me in our basket through the candlelit street to the church. While I was as mystified as ever by human religion and its tendency to answer simple questions with long, strange stories, that night I felt almost blessed.