Basketball Quotes

Accountability is essential to personal growth, as well as team growth. How can you improve if you're never wrong? If you don't admit a mistake and take responsibility for it, you're bound to make the same one again.

Attitude lies somewhere between emotion and logic. It's that curious mix of optimism and determination that enables you to maintain a positive outlook and to continue plodding in the face of the most adverse circumstances.

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.

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.

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

Doesn't matter where you come from, what you have or don't have... All you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

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.

You can't measure success if you have never failed. My father has taught me that if you really do want to reach your goals, you can't spend any time worrying about whether you're going to win or lose. Focus only on getting better.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

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

Everything happens for a reason, and everything has a story, and if you take time to realise what your dream is and what you really want in life... whether it's sports, whether it's in other fields, you have to realise that there's always work to do.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

The only thing even in this world is the number of hours in a day. The difference in winning or losing is what you do with those hours.

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

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

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 night before my amputation, my former basketball coach brought me a magazine with an article on an amputee who ran in the New York Marathon. It was then I decided to meet this new challenge head on and not only overcome my disability, but conquer it in such a way that I could never look back and say it disabled me.

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

There's a misconception about teamwork. Teamwork is the ability to have different thoughts about things; it's the ability to argue and stand up and say loud and strong what you feel. But in the end, it's also the ability to adjust to what is the best for the team.

Whatever pressure I feel all comes from me, from within. I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

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.

You can practice shooting eight hours a day, but if your technique is wrong, then all you become is very good at shooting the wrong way. Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise.

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.

The greatest strength any human being an have is to recognize his or her own weaknesses. When you identify your weaknesses, you can begin to remedy them - or at least figure out how to work around them.

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.

I love playing basketball because you could be having a rough day in your life, and while you're on the court it gives you a clear mind. I'm not worried about anything. I'm there just playing freely and I go out there all and I have fun.

Teamwork is really a form of trust. It's what happens when you surrender the mistaken idea that you can go it alone and realize that you won't achieve your individual goals without the support of your colleagues.

We're sitting in here, and I'm supposed to be the franchise player, and we in here talking about practice. I mean, listen, we're talking about practice, not a game, not a game, not a game, we talking about practice. Not a game. Not, not... Not the game that I go out there and die for and play every game like it's my last. Not the game, but we're talking about practice, man. I mean, how silly is that?.. And we talking about practice. I know I supposed to be there. I know I'm supposed to lead by example... I know that... And I'm not... I'm not shoving it aside, you know, like it don't mean anything. I know it's important, I do. I honestly do... But we're talking about practice man. What are we talking about? Practice? We're talking about practice, man.

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

We should do three things every day of our life. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is to think, we should spend some time in thought. And, number three is you should have your emotions moved to tears.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

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.

Commitment separates those who live their dreams from those who live their lives regretting the opportunities they have squandered.