Hoops Quotations

I love that, even after jumping through hoops forever, I can still get that buzz, that hook. That's very healthy, but it's bittersweet, too, because if you don't get the part, you have to deal with the disappointment. I don't think I'll ever negotiate those peaks and troughs wholly healthily.

To pursue a career in Hollywood you have to have a personality bypass. Look at the top 20 stars in the world - there's probably only two actors among them. Hollywood's not about you as an actor. It's about your currency, what you 'bring to the table'. And I've never been one to jump through hoops for anyone.

The horror movie will not go away. Look at the change in the Hollywood landscape as a signifier of its durability. At one point it was just one of many styles of films called 'product' that between, say, 1930 and 1970, the movie city ground out like sausages or hula hoops at a rate of four or five a week.

I use Spam Arrest because of the amount of junk mail I get. Any legitimate person who wants to send me a message has to jump through hoops before they can be added to my opt-in list.

We started 0-5 because of that. We got down big at the J&C Hoops Classic every game. We have been preaching that. I thought before the game we'd have an advantage at the guard spot and it seemed to hold true.

There is certainly enough money involved in this racing industry that jockeys and backside people should not have to be going through the hoops that they are going through to have adequate coverage,

The only good news is that with margins like this, every refiner that can will ramp up output. There may be a long-term change because this storm has focused attention on the need for additional refineries. An aggressive company may agree to jump through the hoops to build the first new refinery in almost 30 years.

Legislators have been hearing about all of the hoops schools have to jump through with the No Child Left Behind Act, in addition to what was already a system of state accountability.

Life ain't more than gameboard spaceWith hoops to jump and dreams to chaseAnd one day fate'll put us all in our placeGoing going goneAnd one day God might come on backWith a summer tan and a CadillacTime, he'll laugh, why I just lost trackWhat else could he really say?

shouldn't have to jump through hoops to get bankruptcy relief.

Given the steady decline in hoops ratings and the doubling of our football inventory with the Western Athletic and Atlantic Coast Conferences, this was no longer in line with our strategy.

He had to jump through some legal hoops to issue this opinion. It leads us to believe it was more about political ideology than legal standing.

Kids have a right to safe food in school, and parents have a right to know what goes on in the school cafeteria. Until now, many parents had to jump through hoops to track down inspection reports. Posting these reports in schools and on the Internet will be a powerful incentive for schools to run clean and safe cafeterias.

It is great to see that D.C. hoops are back in a big way with as many as four possible tournament teams. You have quality coaches who recruit quality kids and they keep the great local kids at home. Yep, college basketball in D.C. is as good as any other area in the country.

I think we did a good job rebounding and pushing up the floor. We got some easy hoops in transition and we did a good job defensively.

Our Founding Fathers would shudder to see how easily forces outside the mainstream now seem to effortlessly push some Senate leaders toward conduct the American people don't want from their elected leaders: Abusing power. Inserting the government into our private lives. Injecting religion into debates about public policy. Jumping through hoops to ingratiate themselves to their partys base, while step by step, day by day, real problems that keep American families up at night fall by the wayside here in Washington.

We are thrilled to bring College Hoops 2K6 to the Xbox 360. College basketball fans are die-hard, so we worked hard to deliver a game that would bring the intensity of college basketball to life. College Hoops 2K6 creates unique and exciting atmospheres, which are only enhanced by the power of the Xbox 360.

We came out early with some good defense, which got us some easy hoops off turnovers. We also shot well from the outside, which led to the lopsided score.

When we?re not scoring, we were losing energy. They started going down the other end and scoring on put-backs, easy hoops and it was really a snowball effect. It really came from our lack of execution on offense.

There is money for the west sewer plant. The key point is that everything is on target for us to meet the Oct. 4 predicted date to award a contract to construct the west plant. There's a whole series of hoops that we have to jump through and yesterday was one of that series. We've cleared that hoop and we're still on target.

There are a lot of hoops you have to navigate through.

There are a lot of hoops to jump through to do that. We had a couple of public meetings. We talked to the campers. We told them what our management was going to be in the future.

We were really struggling the first half. They (Ronan) hadn't won a game. They got a few hoops to go and made a good run.

There are hoops for industry to jump through.

We'd be singing crazy stuff making up songs while we shot hoops just to goof around. What began as a hobby eventually became a newfound calling for the three of us.

Weve got a lot of hoops to jump through to make this happen. ADECA has been in the loop during this project. I am confident we can come together as a body and make the right decision,

We just executed a lot better than we did in the opener. Eddie (Jones) was hot for awhile and Pau answered some big hoops when we had to have them in the fourth quarter.

Pressure is what makes the game exciting. It's just the five of them scrambling out there. If there was no pressure, it would be like shooting hoops in your driveway.

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.

Despite the food industry's rhetoric, this bill is a sweeping rollback of decades of state action to protect consumers. It would reduce food safety protections to the lowest common denominator and make states jump through expensive bureaucratic hoops to enact future food safety protections.

That's what we try to do. We need to deflect the ball and steal the ball into easy hoops and in the second half we did a better job than that.

That's kind of big game for Bobby on offense. He made two big hoops for us early in the game that gave us the lead. From there, his defense did the rest.

You might ask the doctors whether they're happy with the HMO, and whether or not they have to go through a lot of hoops to get you care, ... Because if the HMO is controlling services very tightly, then maybe that's not the plan for you.

This is not a Herculean thing. People don't have to jump through hoops or eat tofu every day. They just make changes in their life to get results.

This is probably my least favorite arena to play in. We really can't blame it on the arena. The hoops are still 10 feet. You still have to put the ball in the hole. But I just never really liked it. That's just my own opinion.

They ought to be willing to jump through hoops to get that deal.

They guided us through the hoops and circles.

It's a combination of things. When the J&C Hoops Classic started it changed everything, we had to drop two schools. You try to look at how many home and road games you have, and balance it. This is not ideal, but I have seen wackier things.

Taunton is an excellent team. We knew that we would have to play our best tonight. We just got ourselves in a bind and did a good job of getting back into the game before the end of the first half. They got a couple of hoops in the second half and put us back in a bind.

It was a great time growing up in the '70s. I was just one of those kids, throwing a tennis ball against the garage door, shooting hoops until my mom yelled at me to come in late at night. I always knew at some point I was going to be a coach, and I knew it was going to be baseball.

I'm not sure you could ever satisfy the critics, ... They could say, 'Well, you might get it to work, but how often does it fail?' If you adhere to this absolutist position, you have to go to incredible lengths to satisfy these people. How many hoops do you have to go through as a scientist when you don't think you are doing anything wrong?

In Texas, they make you jump through hoops to get on the ballots.

I am one of seven board members. I am in the minority on the voting block and have been for 10 years, and I'm used to that. But in the past I have not had go through so many hoops and jump so many hurdles.

The hoops to jump through are so difficult, and that goes for everyone.

And, ... I always say, 'Why do you have to wear hula hoops in your ears?'

The consumer compensation program established in this program is unworkable, unfair and unacceptable to consumers. It provides only a fraction of the funds needed to compensate consumers for the costs of a digital transition they never asked for. And by requiring consumers to jump through restrictive hoops to request vouchers, those who most need compensation will be the least likely to receive it.

The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel, but do not dull thy palm with entertainment of each new-hatched unfledged comrade.