Motivational Basketball Quotes

Motivational Basketball Quote of the day

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

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

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

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

I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

A successful person realizes his personal responsibility for self-motivation. He starts with himself because he possesses the key to his own ignition switch.

Hard work is not punishment. Hard work is the price of admission for the opportunity to reach sustained excellence

I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

I don't sleep much. I'm on the go. My mind is racing. My wife says my mind is like the rolling dials on a slot machine. So, yeah, I think about everything.

If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end.

Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals.

People have always doubted whether I was good enough to play this game at this level. I thought I was, and I thought I could be. What other people thought was really always irrelevant to me.

Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.

I learned at a young age to dribble with both hands, and that allows me to be more creative when I go against bigger and stronger opponents.

Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.

The best teams have chemistry. They communicate with each other and they sacrifice personal glory for a common goal.

A person really doesn't become whole, until he becomes a part of something that's bigger than himself.

I'm hungrier than those other guys out there. Every rebound is a personal challenge.

It was important to me to believe, because if I don't believe, how can I expect them to believe?

When you get to that level, it's not a matter of talent anymore - because all the players are so talented - it's about preparation, about playing smart and making good decisions.

That's the awesome part. Little girls now have a chance to look up and see women playing soccer, basketball, softball and now hockey - and know they can win a gold medal, too.

Every time you compete, try harder to improve on your last performance. Give nothing short of your very best effort.

Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.

Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.

If I don't believe it, then they don't need me on the court. I've just got to believe that in my heart.

A winner never whines.

In the world there are believers and then there are non-believers. For all of you non-believers out there, I have something to say to you...never underestimate the heart of a champion.

I am a businessman. This is what I do each and every day. I love it. I love coming to work. I never have a bad day.

I have one thing to say to those non-believers. Don't ever underestimate the heart of a champion.

The one thing I do that nobody else does is jump three and four times for one rebound.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

I had to spend countless hours, above and beyond the basic time, to try and perfect the fundamentals.

Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.

The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.

The only way to get people to like working hard is to motivate them. Today, people must understand why they're working hard. Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different.

Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

One man cannot make a team.

I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results.

Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night.

Happiness begins where selfishness ends.

Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.

Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.

I can score 20 points if I want to, but that's not my desire.

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

Even when I'm old and grey, I won't be able to play it, but I'll still love the game.

There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don't put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.

Your mind is what makes everything else work.