Free Throw Quotes

• You aren't going to win championships unless you make layups and free throws.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Winning, Championship

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• To win the big games you must get to the Free Throw line, and then you must make them.

  Rick Majerus

  Basketball, Winning, Games

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• I never think about missing a free throw. All that goes through my mind when I'm at the line is seeing the ball go through the bottom of the net.

  Brad Daugherty

  Basketball, Thinking, Nba

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• I'll hit them when it matters.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Matter

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• If I had stood at the free-throw line and thought about 10 million people watching me on the other side of the camera lens, I couldn't have made anything. So I mentally tried to put myself in a familiar place. I thought about all those times I shot free throws in practice and went through the same motion, the same technique that I had used thousands of times. You forget about the outcome. You know you are doing the right things. So you relax and perform.

  Michael Jordan

  Wrestling, Practice, People

  Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

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• When I concentrate and focus, they always go in, so I'm gonna continue to do that, and they will go in.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Focus

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• It's so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying "Shhh" and not moving a muscle. Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.

  Al McGuire

  Moving, Kids, Golf

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• Winning a postseason game is like winning five regular season games. There is just no feeling like it. Everything is magnified. Every free throw, turnover, shot and play.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Winning, Games

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• I'm not the greatest long-distance shooter, I know that. But I know if I can get around that free-throw line area, a lot of times you've just got to hope I miss.

  Chris Paul

  Distance, Long, Missing

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• I'm not the guy whose gonna shoot 10,000 free-throws until I'm Michael Jordan - and it did happen kind of accidentally that I said, "Okay, yeah, I'll try singing."

  D.A. Wallach

  Guy, Singing, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you want Shaq to be Shaq, you've got to remember that Shaq is known for wreaking havoc offensively - 26,000-plus points without consistently making free throws. Don't have me doing something I'm not used to doing. I ain't used to being a pick-setter. Let me badda-bing, badda-bang.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Want, Bangs

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• The only thing I pay attention to with free throws is what a guy does in the final four minutes of a game. If you can improve players' self-esteem and confidence, get them to relax, teach visualization and routine, they will shoot as well, or better, with the pressure on.

  John Calipari

  Basketball, Self Esteem, Player

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• A free throw seems boring but then when you sort of dig into what's going on and the history and psychology and the social anthropology around the free throw - it's interesting.

  Alex Blumberg

  Interesting, Psychology, Boring

  "Here’s How to Get Rich or Die Podcasting". Interview with Edwin Rios, www.motherjones.com. December 25, 2015.

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• Maybe it’s my own fault. Maybe I led you to believe it was easy when it wasn’t. Maybe I made you think my highlights started at the free throw line, and not in the gym. Maybe I made you think that every shot I took was a game winner. That my game was built on flash, and not fire. Maybe it’s my fault that you didn’t see that failure gave me strength; that my pain was my motivation. Maybe I led you to believe that basketball was a God given gift, and not something I worked for every single day of my life. Maybe I destroyed the game. Or maybe you’re just making excuses.

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Pain, Motivation

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• Flowers are the free throw of love. You're looking for the clutch three-pointer from downtown.

  Daniel Holloway

  Inspirational, Basketball, Flower

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• I liked Augustus Waters. I really, really really liked him. I liked the way his story ended with someone else. I liked his voice. I liked that he took existentially-fraught free throws.

  John Green

  Hipster, Voice, Water

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.26, Penguin

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• We're shooting 100 percent - 60 percent from the field and 40 percent from the free-throw line.

  Norm Stewart

  Inspirational, Basketball, Shooting

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• I knew I was going to make one. I wanted to make two, but the first one rattled in and rattled right out.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Two, Firsts

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• You've got to learn the footwork, the positioning, how to box out, how to pass, how to shoot your free throws. All these things are necessary, not to be the No. 1 player in the world, but maybe you can play against him.

  Oscar Robertson

  Success, Basketball, Sports

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• I can't begin to describe the amount of crap I've taken for being a lousy free-throw shooter.

  Dennis Rodman

  Basketball, Taken, Being Free

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• I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if I missed, there was a lane violation, and I was given another one.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Winning, Games

  American Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• I have much less confidence on the greens than I do on the court. Everybody asks like if putting is like shooting free throws. Like that six-footer for par or something like that. It has a very similar kind of mindset.

  Stephen Curry

  Shooting, Six, Kind

  Source: wearegolf.org

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• Probably a lack of concentration. I always hit them during practice. I just need to concentrate. Even though I should a lousy percentage, I beat a lot of teams from the line. You have to have mechanics. But see, what people don't know about my wrists is my wrists don't go all the way back. My wrists are crooked and don't go all the way back. I've been practicing and working on them. You can't do everything good.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Team, Practice

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• If I was able to have the game I have and shoot 80% from the line, I'd probably be an arrogant person rather than a humble one. Everything happens for a reason.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Humble, Arrogant Person

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• It's part of my game, getting to the free-throw line and being aggressive. If you say that I get superstar calls or I get babied by the refs, that's just taking away from how I play. That's disrespectful to me.

  Kevin Durant

  Basketball, Games, Play

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