Rick Barry Quotes

My hockey is good, but my ice skating is terrible. It's a bit of a mess to watch!

For the first couple of years I played really bad tennis. It was so bad that they booed me off the court.

I'm a big Knicks fan, and I will tell a professional basketball player that they suck because they didn't do what I wanted them to do.

I've always been a high-percentage shooter, obviously because I'm dunking and laying the ball up.

A lot of guys go into the NBA not being able to shoot the ball well, but then they become great shooters.

I'm definitely not the caliber player that LeBron is, but I find it funny how people can criticize him and the way he plays the game. So it's pretty easy to criticize me if they are still able to criticize LeBron.

If you played basketball growing up, you learn the importance of follow-through when you shoot: forming the gooseneck, waving good-bye to the ball, reaching into the far off hoop like it's a cookie jar - think Michael Jordan's last shot as a Bull.

I actually felt bad because I was dunking the ball so much. I led the league in dunks one year, and they told me that was the wrong thing to do.

For bigs, we usually have three simple moves - and the hook-shot is one of those moves that's a forgotten art. But it's always been an effective move in our league.

Rick Barry always amazed me - he was one of the best free-throw shooters of all time, and he used to throw it underhand.

I'd just shoot until I got tired. I wanted to improve my outside shooting and my ball handling. I wanted to improve everything.

The fans want a nice game, and when not everything goes so well, they have every right to boo.

My game is kind of built around hitting shots - that's what I take pride in, and it's what separates myself from other guys.

I found out some of the spots on the floor that I like to shoot - do my little floater shots, my pull-up shots, being able to get all the way to the rim. By me doing that, it's kind of opened up my 3-point shot.

Your touch and your feel for the game is pretty much gone if you don't work on it - at least get some shots up or dribble the ball.

Besides shooting, I think I need to work on everything. I need to get stronger, quicker, work on my ballhandling, and develop a go-to move.

I shoot all kinds of shots. I just don't stay on the block and do layups and dunks when I'm in the gym by myself.

I hate casual shooting. Every shot is preceded by working to get open and catch and shoot under game like conditions

I can get better. I haven't reached my ceiling yet on how well I can shoot the basketball.

The best shooters shoot the exact same way every single time they look at the basket.

I want to be just like Steph when I grow up.

Why is Scottie Pippen taking a charge? Taking a charge is for people with no game!

Yeah, D-Wade called me up last night and said that he saw some film of me in high school and thinks that my form then was better and that I should shoot like that. I told him I'd think about it and then my pops called and said something like that so I decided to revert back and then.

...I've spent the last fifteen years of my life railing against the game of soccer, an exercise that has been lauded as "the sport of the future" since 1977. Thankfully, that future dystopia has never come.

I feel dominant - I feel the triangle offense utilizes all my skills.