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“What do you do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.”

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“Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.”

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“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.”

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“Basketball is a beautiful game when the five players on the court play with one heartbeat.”

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“How good can we expect to be if our best player is not our best teammate.”

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“Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”

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“Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.”

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“Leadership is diving for a loose ball. It’s about being able to take it as well as dish it out. That’s the only way your going to get respect from other players.”

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“You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.”

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“Good players want to be coached… Great players want to be told the truth.”

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“Recognize and reward players who put the team first, not just the gifted ones.”

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“I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.”

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“Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best.”

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“To inspire the players, I adapted a quote from Walt Whitman and taped it on their lockers before the first game of the playoffs, against the Miami Heat. ‘Henceforth we seek not good fortune, we are ourselves good fortune'.”

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“If you quit ONCE it becomes a habit. Never quit!”

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

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“It takes three things to be a ‘special’ player: talent, character, and competitive fire.”

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“A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.”

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“But that’s the thing about basketball: you don’t play games on paper.”

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“It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.”

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“Remember that basketball is a game of habits. If you make the other guy deviate from his habits, you’ve got him.”

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“Me shooting 40% at the foul line is just God’s way of saying nobody’s perfect.”

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“My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.”

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“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”

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“Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball. I didn’t play against the toughest competition in high school, but one reason I was able to do well in college was that I mastered the fundamentals. You’ve got to have them down before you can even think about playing.”

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“Sometimes a player’s greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.”

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“Something just doesn’t pop under your nose; you have to work for it.”

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“Put great thought to what and how you practice. Once practice is done you can never get that time back. Did you simulate the game?”

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“The key is not the ‘will to win’… everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.”

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“Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.”

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“I think the reason why I’m the person who I am today is because I went through those tough times when I was younger.”

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“There’s only one thing we can control, and that is how hard we play.”

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“The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.”

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“When you think you have done enough, do a little more, because someone out there is working harder than you.”

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“I’m playing; I’m here. I’m going to fight until they tell me they don’t want me anymore.”

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“In order to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them.”

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“Don’t mistake activity with achievement.”

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“Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work.”

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“Most of us spend the bulk of our time caught up in thoughts of the past or the future — which can be dangerous if your job is winning basketball games. Basketball takes place at such a lightning pace that it’s easy to make mistakes and get obsessed with what just happened or what might happen next, which distracts you from the only thing that really matters — this very moment.”

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“The key to success is failure.”

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“I’m chasing perfection.”

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“I don’t know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody – somewhere – was practicing more than me.”

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“Approach the game with no preset agendas and you’ll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts.”

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“Some times your best effort just isn’t good enough.”

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“I’ve never lost a game I just ran out of time.”

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“I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I’m like, ‘My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don’t have it. I just want to chill.’ We all have self-doubt. You don’t deny it, but you also don’t capitulate to it. You embrace it.”

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“Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.”

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“The most we can hope for is to create the best possible conditions for success, then let go of the outcome. The ride is a lot more fun that way.”

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“If every basketball player worked as hard as I did, I’d be out of a job.”

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“You don’t need great skill to be a tough rebounder; being a rebounder is all about effort, determination, and physicality.”

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“The basketball court for me, during a game, is the most peaceful place I can imagine. On the basketball court, I worry about nothing. When I’m out there, no one can bother me…”

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“The goal is to make practice more difficult, physically/mentally, than anything your players will face during a game.”

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“If all I’m remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I’ve done a bad job with the rest of my life.”

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“Your best player has to set a tone of intolerance for anything that gets in the way of winning.”

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“As a leader, your job is to do everything in your power to create the perfect conditions for success by benching your ego and inspiring your team to play the game the right way. But at some point, you need to let go and turn yourself over to the basketball gods. The soul of success is surrendering to what is.”

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“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”

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“Push yourself again and again. Don’t give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.”

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“I look at my jersey and see the NBA logo, I’m like, ‘I didn’t think I’d be here.”

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“The day I stopped worrying about stats is the day I started winning.”

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“There is no “I”in team but there is in win.”

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“The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.”

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“Discipline is doing what has to be done, when it has to be done, as well as it can be done, and doing it that way all the time.”

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“Limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.”

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“One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.”

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“I’ve always been impressed by Kobe’s resilience and ironclad self-confidence. Unlike Shaq, who was often plagued by self-doubt, Kobe never let such thoughts cross his mind. If someone set the bar at ten feet, he’d jump eleven, even if no one had ever done it before. That’s the attitude he brought with him when he arrived at training camp that fall, and it had a powerful impact on his teammates.”

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“It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.”

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“If you do the work you get rewarded. There are no shortcuts in life.”

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“People just don’t understand how obsessed I am with winning.”

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

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“That’s why at the start of every season I always encouraged players to focus on the journey rather than the goal. What matters most is playing the game the right way and having the courage to grow, as human beings as well as basketball players. When you do that, the ring takes care of itself.”

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“Coaches shouldn’t have to push you to work hard, you should push yourself to work hard because you want to be a great player.”

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“I always wanted to be a basketball player. Nothing more, nothing less.”

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“You cant win unless you learn how to lose.”

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“Good thing in this business is that you just have to make one big shot and that’s enough to make you forget 9 other shots that you missed.”

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“Goals determine what you’re going to be.”

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“Once I made a decision, I never thought about it again.”

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“Everything is habit forming, so make sure what you do is what you want to be doing.”

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“Failure is acceptable. but not trying is a whole different ball park.”

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“A lot of late nights in the gym, a lot of early mornings, especially when your friends are going out, you’re going to the gym, those are the sacrifices that you have to make if you want to be an NBA basketball player.”

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“Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.”

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“I love seeing my teammates succeed. That’s what I get more excited about than anything.”

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“It’s OK to make mistakes. That’s how we learn. When we compete, we make mistakes.”

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“Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.”

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“We old athletes carry the disfigurements and markings of contests remembered only by us and no one else. Nothing is more lost than a forgotten game.”

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“They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they’d make up their minds.”

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

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“What is love? Love is playing every game as if it’s your last!”

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“Never make excuses. Your friends don’t need them and your foes won’t believe them.”

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Gymnastics Quotes

“I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.”

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“As much time as you put into it, that's what your achievements are going to be when you come out of it.”

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“Don't be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning.”

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“We always say at our gym, if you lose the nerves, you lose the sport.”

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“Don't ever be afraid to dream too big. Nothing is impossible. If you believe in yourself, you can achieve it.”

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“I'm a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.”

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“There will be mistakes, there will be falters. There will be things that are not a part of your plan. See the challenges in your life and accept them and embrace them.”

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“It's important to push yourself further than you think you can go each and every day. That is what separates the good from the great.”

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“Go into the sport because you have fun doing it, not because of 'what ifs' and dreams of gold medals. That way, no matter what happens, you win.”

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“Wake up every day knowing that today is a new day and only you can determine the outcome of that day. So dream big, accept the challenge, and never look back.”

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“If you believe you can get through an injury and fight back, and you really love gymnastics enough, you can get through it.”

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“It's not about winning or losing a competition, it's about beating the doubt from within yourself and knowing at the end of each day you are one step closer to your goals.”

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