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Jump high and hard with intention and heart.
Jump and let's build our wings on the way down
I would run through brick walls for Spurs.
Jealous punks can't stop my dunks.
I'm the basketball version of a gravedigger.
Feet, what do I need them for
If I have wings to fly.
A fellow told me he was going to hang-glider school. He said, 'I've been going for three months. ' I said, 'How many successful jumps do you need to make before you graduate?' He said, 'All of them. '
Basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo.
All that hoops are good for is to clean dirty shoes and keep fellows at a distance.
They stumble that run fast.
My players on defense must have a hand-up on every shot. If not, they run sprints.
I'm a very good 15- to 18-foot shooter.
Casual Italian loafers. One enterprising soul actually wore field-hockey shoes.
Don't squat with your spurs on."--Unknown
My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We've all been very athletic.
Dames. Sometimes all they got to do is let it out and a few buckets later there's no way you'd ever know.
We got hookers with heaters that'll stray pop and put more shells in your top than Adidas.
Never trust a man in a jumpsuit
As I grew into my body, high jump chose me.
In the NBA you need a little bit more than that when Jordan is front of you. You need a little bit more than that when it is Barkley or Karl Malone or Shaq or whoever else. You need a lot more than that frankly if you're the English kid who can't jump.
Dallas Mavericks want me as a bald-headed 5' 8" guard with a 95" vertical.
Vince Carter respect my legs, ask Shawn Kemp.
Whats the name you Poms have for that thing where you jump up and down and hit each other with sticks?"
"Sex?"
"Gardening?"
He snapped his fingers. "Morris dancing.
A lot of the players I'm with, thank God, we're all still vertical. We've lost so many great players through the years, and we're still standing, as Elton John says.
My Shoes. Black Chuck Taylor All Stars. They bestow their wearer with both speed and flight.
Very good coaches for ski jumpers stand at the top of the slope and watch the jumpers prepare, rather than standing at the bottom and watching them land.
The square is your friend. Behind every missed lay-up is a tale of the square neglected.
Have the WNBA lower the hoops. Because even though layups get the job done, they're lame. Seriously, layups look the way Woody Allen talks. Wimpy as fuck.
The art the wealthy use in business is to jump.
I am, first of all, a basketball player. I've done this for so very long ... For me, it's been essential to be successful on the court.
I can dunk! I can dunk, and not just in NBA Live.
Plyometrics. Hate them. Enough already. Jumping around, using your own body weight is so hard to me. How did we do it as kids?
Actually, I had no idea what shooting hoops was or were. I thought dunking was something you did with a beignet and a cup of steaming coffee. I wasn't exactly sure what a Knick was.
Apparently I need shoes with a 'swoosh' on the side if I'm to continue playing basketball. ~ Lucius Vladescu
I didn't have the ability to blow people off the court, so I needed my legs, my preparation and the ability to think on my feet.
In a jump, the subject, in a sudden burst of energy, overcomes gravity. He cannot simultaneously control his expressions, his facial and his limb muscles. The mask falls. The real self becomes visible. One only has to snap it with the camera.
Humans don't leap buildings. Stuntmen with harnesses do. And won't my crashing eight stories to the ground be detrimental to the mission? The dark elves will swarm me and take me hostage instantly."
"That might be true, but you're not going to fall," he said.
He who jumps for the sake of jumping will probably keep jumping until he jumps back into his own jumping ground.
Athletes have studied how to leap and how to survive the leap some of the time and return to the ground. They don't always do it well. But they are our philosophers of actual moments and the body and soul in them, and of our maneuvers in our emergencies and longings.
I know that if you ask me to jump I will say how high. So I will stay away from you and hope that you never ever say jump.
The Springboard. Denning
Good wits will jump.
When jumping is the sole option, you jump, and try to make it work.
(Why did they call them sneakers if it was so hard to sneak in them?)
To leap is not only to leap, it is to hit the ground somewhere.
I just adore jumping. I do the rest as it is supposed to be done.
Black folks never bungie jump. That's too much like lynching for us. I'm gonna let you tie a rope around me and push me off a bridge? You must be out your damn mind.
Just advertising departments with legs and high heels.
Giving jump starts our relationship with God. It opens our fists so we can receive what God has for us.
The Chasers throw the Quaffle and put it through the hoops to score," Harry recited. "So - that's sort of like basketball on broomsticks with six hoops, isn't it?"
"What's basketball?" said Wood curiously.
"Never mind," said Harry quickly.
When you jump, all your going to do is fall.But leaping? Leaping is when you think there's something on the other side."
"And you have a sense that we're about to leap?"
"I have a sense that we already have.
Ze soldiers are very hoppy shooting ze pipples who say that ze pipples are not hoppy.
A jump jockey has to throw his heart over the fence - and then go over and catch it.
When you jump, all you're going to do is fall. But leaping? Leaping is when you think there's something on the other side.
Great shooters are one dribble guys.
When your only option is to jump, you jump and try to make it work.
I've always liked to shoot from the hip. This is the perfect fit for me ... I'm willing to earn my spurs, because once again, after 18 years I'm back to being a rookie.
People ask me if I'd permit fancy things, like dunks. Well, if they did dunk, it was with no fancy flair. No behind-the-back dribbles or passes unless necessary. If it was for show, you were on the bench.
Don't care how big they are, boys; they can't do anything if you get 'em up off the ground.
Most likely Pistons," said Pillover in a resigned tone of voice. "You told them about the ball. They like to go to events uninvited, put gin in the punch, and steal all the spoons. Stylish shenanigans like that."
"Charming," said Sophronia.
A little bird told me that jumping is easy and the falling is fun, right up until you hit sidewalk shivering and stunned.
He who jumps may fall, but he may also fly.
It's time to jump.
I can shoot a basket pretty well.
When you're jumping so high for something so far up in the sky, you have to know that there is definitely someone there who can catch you, someone who knows how to catch you and when.
Kicks are my forte. I've got strong legs and high kicks. And I've got very good reach, obviously.
If he says jump, she doesn't even ask "How high?" She goes out and buys a pogo stick.
We need to boost each other to get to the top. It is much more effective than stepping on each other.
Dunking is something guys care more about than girls, There's something about jumping that seems to fascinate guys. Girls are more, like, 'As long as the ball goes in, who cares how you got it there?'
There are two types of forwards. Scorers and bangers. Scorers score and bangers bang.
Jump, then grow wings on the way down.
It takes 10 hands to score a basket
I jumped between two seven-story buildings in Los Angeles, launching from one rooftop to the other with ramps.
Basketball teams, after the perfunctory lay-up drill, fall into the crowded isolation and personal style of 10 city kids shooting at the same basket or playing one-on-one.
I'm a sneakerhead. I probably have a couple hundred pair of shoes. I got all sorts of shoes.
Basketball is a sport that involves the subtle interweaving of players at full speed to the point where they are thinking and moving as one.
The tall team takes the low road into the lead
Some of the players are known as scorers or assists. I guess what I am known as being is an ironwoman.
So, to cut a long story short, they jumped.
As I grew up, I played in sandals. I played in flip-flops all the time back in the day. That's why I didn't really care about spraining my ankles. When I first started in the NBA, I loved low-cuts. I can play (in them), because I used to grow up playing in flip-flops all the time.
They were big and black and rubber - the kind of boots you might be wearing as you came in the kitchen door, shaking off your rain slicker and saying, Grab the young'uns, Ma. Crick's a-rising.
Teenage Fanclub dive impressively into the water headfirst, like a synchronised five-man Olympic swimming team. Joe McAlinden
Trying to follow in the footsteps of the masters, but it's a lot harder than it looks because even though they had the same size feet as us, they weren't looking down the whole time while they walked to make sure they were doing it right
When you work with Ray Charles, Billy Eckstine and Frank Sinatra, and you tell them to jump without a net, you better know what you're talking about. Thank God I was ready for it.
When I was younger, I did not have the strength to jump well enough, but over the years I have gained that, worked on it. But the sensibility you simply have to have.
As long as Pete and Joe are there, it's gonna be jumping.
I'm definitely a boot-scootin' kind of guy.
The difference between shooters and scorers is that shooters usually need plays to be run for them or screens to get their shot.
Who is wurs shod, than the shoemakers wyfe,With shops full of shoes all hir lyfe?
Please tell me he's not skipping.
Growing up as a high jumper, I said if I could ever jump 2.40, I'd be pretty satisfied with my career. It's definitely a barrier for high jumpers.
Hurdles are there to jump over not to stand in front and wonder
I'd been the best leaper in K-9 class, which had led to all the trouble in a way I couldn't remember exactly, although blood was involved.
The one thing I do that nobody else does is jump three and four times for one rebound.
In the NBA, there is a guy guarding you, and you really have to try shooting over him.
Don't jump if you can't take the fall
Cuban-heeled stockings; not the sort of thing you could buy for another man's wife.
I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.
My best move is probably my pull up jump shot.
A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
I guess if you don't jump, you'll never know if you can fly.
When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.