What is a rainbow, Lord? A hoop for the lowly.

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

— Jack Levine

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

— P. J. Tucker

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

— Yasunari Kawabata

What goes around comes around like a hool-a-hoop.

— Lil Wayne

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

— Willie Cauley-Stein

And we are all connected to each other, in a circle, in a hoop that never ends

— Pocahontas

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

— Anonymous

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.…

— LaMarcus Aldridge

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

— John Edgar Wideman

Like, I did baseball, football, or track - I never really worked on a sport every day for years like most kids that hoop.

— Willie Cauley-Stein

I love all sports but I watch a lot of NBA basketball - I have a big hoop outside my house. As a kid…

— Owen Hargreaves

“I don't get it. Basketball is so supremely boring. I can't understand the point of watching ten giants running from one end of the…

— Carter Quinn

I would walk around in all these cities we lived in because my dad would move around so much. I would just walk the…

— Danilo Gallinari

My dad put up a great hoop in our front yard in our driveway. I was in Oregon, so I had to be out…

— Kevin Love

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

— C. J. McCollum