Basketball Quotes


Basketball Quotes

“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?”

Basketball Quotes

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

Basketball Quotes

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

Basketball Quotes

“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.”

Basketball Quotes

“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.”

Basketball Quotes

“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.”

Basketball Quotes

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

Basketball Quotes

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

Basketball Quotes

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

Basketball Quotes

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

Basketball Quotes

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

Basketball Quotes

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

Basketball Quotes

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

Basketball Quotes

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

Basketball Quotes

“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'.”

Basketball Quotes

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

Basketball Quotes

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

Basketball Quotes

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

Basketball Quotes

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

Basketball Quotes

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