Life's just a merry-go-round. Come on up. You might get a brass ring. — Mae West
Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end. — David Niven
A circle of lovely, quiet people becomes the ring on my finger. — Rumi
Jump off the beam, flip off the bars follows your dreams, and reach for the stars — Nadia Comaneci
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. — Les Brown
In basketball - as in life - true joy comes from being fully present in each and every moment, not just when things are going your way. — Phil Jackson
Life is a carousel. It goes up and down. All U gotta do is just stay on. — Pharrell Williams
Move like a beam of light: fly like lightning, strike like thunder, whirl in circles around a stable center — Morihei Ueshiba
Basketball really had its origin in Indiana, which remains the center of the sport. — James Naismith
The one thing I do that nobody else does is jump three and four times for one rebound. — Dennis Rodman
Short Hoop Quotes
We'll jump through a lot of hoops to avoid a little bit of immediate pain. — James Clear
What goes around comes around like a hool-a-hoop. — Lil Wayne
I'm funkier than a locker room after a hoop game. — Mac Dre
I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind. — Kareem AbdulJabbar
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces. — Henry Ward Beecher
And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people as one of many hoops that made one circle. — Black Elk
I like to get out and get up the court, using my speed and aggressiveness toward the hoop. — LeBron James
Obviously, you've never seen a woman skydiving in a hoop skirt. — Chris A. Bridges
I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop. — Jack Levine
So I took the bright red stick and at the center of the nation's hoop I thrust it in the earth. — Black Elk
Hoop Image Quotes
Hula Hoop Quotes
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. — Marshall McLuhan
When I was a kid I used to hate getting picked for team sports. It would be the fit and sporty guys over there. And me and the fat kids over here. Those kids were fat! One girl had to be cut out a hula hoop. — Alan Carr
My first song was Hula Hoop Song, in 1955. It was a novelty song. I had to find someway to reach out and it was with a novelty song. Now, all of my recording obligations have been taken care of. I made 14 albums for Warner Brothers. Five for United Artist before that. — Gordon Lightfoot
I think when people talk about improvising it turns into this silly thing like, "Oh there's like a hula hoop there and I'm like 'Oh what's going on here? Is this a really big ring?'" — Aziz Ansari
I'm obsessed with hula-hooping. I do it for 20 minutes a day. I don't use the old-fashioned hollow plastic kind we had when we were kids, but I discovered a new one at Danskin that's smaller and weighted. — Sayings
Yes, I backed the hula hoop. And I had a lot of other people come to me with ideas that turned out well. — Art Linkletter
There's less violence in the world when people are using Hula-Hoops. — Mikey Way
We cannot pursue a classical and Christian education as a fad. We are not purchasing intellectual hula hoops for the kids. — Douglas Wilson
Just Hope Quotes
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway. — Earl Nightingale
There's no way around grief and loss: you can dodge all you want, but sooner or later you just have to go into it, through it, and, hopefully, come out the other side. The world you find there will never be the same as the world you left. — Johnny Cash
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. — Harriet Tubman
Promises are worse than lies. You don't just make them believe, you also make them hope. — Marilyn Monroe
If you don't know the guy on the other side of the world, love him anyway because he's just like you. He has the same dreams, the same hopes and fears. It's one world, pal. We're all neighbors. — Frank Sinatra
Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy. — Rudy Giuliani
Despite all the troubles of our world, in my heart I have never given up on the love in which I was brought up or on man's hope in love. In life, just as on the artist's palette, there is but one single colour that gives meaning to life and art–the colour of love — Marc Chagall
Growing up I wasn't the richest, but I had a rich family in spirit. Standing here with 19 championships is something I never thought would happen. I went on a court just with a ball and a racket and with a hope. — Serena Williams
Never give up. There is always hope, there is always life. You've just gotta open your heart to it. Live in love. — Austin Carlile
When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Passion is a huge prerequisite to winning. It makes you willing to jump through hoops, go through all the ups and downs and everything in between to reach your goal. — Kerri Walsh
My own style influences have to do with where I grew up, in the Bronx, and I still like to wear bangles and big hoops! — Jennifer Lopez
I think the accessories look very modern and very exciting. These big earrings, these big hoops. I think the girls are sort of falling in love with... collars, neck collars. — Ralph Lauren
There could never be a more beautiful you; dont buy the lies, disguises and hoops they make you jump through; you were made to fill a purpose that only you could do; so there could never be a more beautiful you. — Jonny Diaz
I am not one to brag but to tell you the truth mang,
I am funkier then a locker room after a hoop game. — Mac Dre
And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father. — Black Elk
I'm channelling my 14-year-old self. She's thinking about putting on her big hoop earrings and baggy pants and going to the mall downtown. — Nelly Furtado
I always make this joke that I know you were expecting to see the big skirts and the hoops. But that was a long time ago. Artists aren't always seen as real people. If you start out as a teenager, sometimes people want to keep you locked as that. But I'm a woman now. — Jody Watley
I really enjoy surfing a lot. It's an awesome sport. With surfing there are no mind games versus Peyton Manning, or versus anyone else. It's not me trying to throw a certain shot put further - or to put a ball in a hoop, it's just me against mother nature. — Troy Polamalu
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. — Black Elk
I still eat pizzas, I still like pies, I still have spaghetti hoops for breakfast... but it's in moderation now. — Shane Warne
Evening had fallen. A rim of the young moon cleft the pale waste of sky line, the rim of a silver hoop embedded in grey sand: and the tide was flowing in fast to the land with a low whisper of her waves, islanding a few last figures in distant pools. — James Joyce
The geometry of judgment is a circle. Hate is a snake that turns to consume itself from the tail, a circle that diminishes to a point, then to nothing. Pride is such a snake, and envy, and greed. Love, however, is a hoop, a wheel, that rolls on forever. We are rescued by those whom we have rescued. The saved become the saviors of their saviors. — Dean Koontz
Hoop Dancer is a rendering of my understanding of the process by which one enters into timelessness -- that place where one is whole. — Paula Gunn Allen
The hoop dancer dances within what encircles him, demonstrating how the people live in motion within the circling spirals of time and space. They are no more limited than water and sky. At green corn dance time, water and sky come together, in Indian time, to make rain. — Paula Gunn Allen
Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things. — Adam Sandler
The last ever dolphin message was misinterpreted as a surprisingly sophisticated attempt to do a double-backwards-somersault through a hoop whilst whistling the 'Star Spangled Banner', but in fact the message was this: So long and thanks for all the fish. — Douglas Adams
Jumping through any hoop or taking advantage of any desperate situation that comes up just to sell a product is harmful. It is. — Trent Reznor
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. — Derek Jacobi
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. — Jack Nicholson
It was a great place to grow up. There were always kids around in our neighborhood. We had a basketball hoop in the back of our house, a little front yard where you could get touch football games going. I know you think of it as a big city, but it was fun for me to grow up in New Orleans. I remember it as a very normal childhood. — Eli Manning
In regard to the great mass of men, anything that breaks the realm of fear is not salutary, but dangerous; because it takes off one of the hoops that hold the barrel together in which the evil spirits are confined. — Henry Ward Beecher
The last time I appeared in Las Vegas, they were wearing hoop skirts and Davy Crockett hats, ... But they say 'What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.' And as far as fashion is concerned, that's a good thing. — Joan Rivers
Just like I'm the king on the microphone, so is Dr. J and Moses Malone
I like slam dunks, take me to the hoop my favorite play is the alley-oop
I like the pick-and-roll, I like the give-and-go
Cause it's basketball, uh, Mister Kurtis Blow. — Kurtis Blow
What is so fascinating about sitting around watching a bunch of pituitary cases stuff a ball through a hoop? — Woody Allen
O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all hooping. — William Shakespeare
A corner of his mouth quirked up. “I play pool. Shoot hoops sometimes too. Any other sport you’re curious about?” “Hockey? Polo?” “Simultaneously. Trick is to keep the horses on their skates. — Devon Monk
In my time, we had little league and junior league or whatever - before that, there's the sandlot. Kids played baseball wherever you can make a space. We played tackle-football on the street. Now we play basketball in the studio. We have a hoop. But we also have a pitching machine. — Raymond Pettibon
Before, I would play a little hoops, a little tennis. Now it's more yoga, Pilates, stretching, some light weight work, push-ups, sit-ups, resistance things. When I used to live on the eleventh floor, I would take the steps. I don't do that so much now. I'm taking the elevator a bit more these days. — Robin Roberts
Civilisation is hooped together, brought
Under a rule, under the semblance of peace
By manifold illusion. — William Butler Yeats
Those of us who have tested gravity under a hoop know its mystical properties. Robin Layton, as I would have expected, has turned this staple of Americana into a gorgeous art form. — George Vecsey
In Conclusion
Which quotation resonated with you best? Did you enjoy our collection of hoop quotes? Or may be you have a slogan about hoop to suggest. Let us know using our contact form.
Citation
Feel free to cite and use any of the quotes in this collection of hoop quotations. For popular citation styles(APA, Chicago, MLA), please use this citation page.
