Basketball Quotes

Basketball Quote of the day

You can't always be the most talented person in the room. But you can be the most competitive

Attitude is a choice. Think positive thoughts daily. Believe in yourself.

Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.

Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you're never wrong?

Attitude is a choice. What you think you can do, whether positive or negative, confident or scared, will most likely happen.

Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling

Mental Toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it's not the best thing for you.

Success is not an accident, success is actually a choice.

Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We.

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

Basketball isn't a game; It's an art form. You master the fundamentals so you can forget 'em, so you can improvise and just concentrate on what really matters: getting buckets.

The Big Cactus... because if you come too close, you're gonna get stuck.

Basketball isn't just a sport. It is an art, one that must be mastered to succeed.

Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.

It's not about any one person. You've got to get over yourself and realize that it takes a group to get this thing done

I'm not the guy who's afraid of failure. I like to take risks, take the big shot and all that.

Every time I rise up, I have confidence that I'm going to make it.

The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.

I don't want to be another Jordan, Magic, or Isiah. When my career is over, I want to be able to look in the mirror and say 'I did it my way'.

I love that basketball gives me the opportunities to do good things for people and to point them towards the Man who died for our sins on the cross.

Coaching is making men do what they don't want, so they can become what they want to be

The most important measure of how good a game I played was how much better I’d made my teammates play.

You can't force your will on people. If you want them to act differently, you need to inspire them to change themselves

Wrestling... what men do during boys basketball season.

I play every game like it's my last game. All that matters is that you go out there and play every game as if it was your last.

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.

I always believe I can beat the best, achieve the best. I always see myself in the top position.

'Play the right way' means play unselfishly, respect each other's achievements, play hard, fulfill your role

No one is bigger than the team. If you can't do things our way, you're not getting time here and we don't care who you are

Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.

If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.

A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.

Good players want to be coached... Great players want to be told the truth

Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

You can't pick and choose the days that you feel like being responsible. It's not something that disappears when you're tired.

I won't coach this team next year if he is still here. He won't listen to anyone. I've had it with this kid.

We believe in people executing their role and caring about the team more than anything individually

Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.

When you are not practicing, someone else is getting better.

Don't believe everything you hear - even in your own mind.

Champions behave like champions before they are champions

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

I'm never satisfied. I'm always trying to get better and learn from my mistakes.

If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you. You haven't done much today.

Belief in yourself is what happens when you know you've done the thing things that entitle you to success.

It's not just about working hard, it's about working together. You have to care more about the team than you do about yourself

In life, winning and losing will both happen. What is never acceptable is quitting.

Everyting negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.

Don't let winning make you soft. Don't let losing make you quit. Don't let your teammates down in any situation.