Browsing Topic Best Famous Basketball Quotes

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

It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

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

Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.

Basketball doesn’t build character it reveals it.

Don’t believe everything you hear – even in your own mind.

It’s a funny thing, the more I practice the luckier I get.

You don’t have to live anybody else’s story.

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

Doing more of what doesn’t work won’t make it work any better.

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

You don’t play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.

It’s not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.

Man is what he believes.

Basketball is a game that gives you every chance to be great, and puts every pressure on you to prove that you haven’t got what it takes. It never takes away the chance, and it never eases up on the pressure.

The number one problem that keeps people from winning in the United States today is lack of belief in themselves.

Do your best when no one is looking.

Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up.

Heart in champions has to do with the depth of our motivation and how well your mind and body react to pressure – that is, being able to do what you do best under maximum pain and stress.

If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I’d watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.

Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful at anything you put your mind to

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

These are my new shoes. They’re good shoes. They won’t make you rich like me, they won’t make you rebound like me, they definitely won’t make you handsome like me. They’ll only make you have shoes like me. That’s it.

I know I’m never as good or bad as one single performance. I’ve never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I’ve always been able to leave the game at the arena.

The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.

Left hand, right hand, it doesn’t matter. I’m amphibious.

There is generally not any conscious thought; it’s all instinct, and practice takes over.

All athletic accomplishments begin with volition; that is, the desire and willpower necessary to succeed. Volition affects more than thoughts and feelings – it affects physical performance.

None of us can change our yesterdays but all of us can change our tomorrows.

What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.

If I weren’t earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.

I think that the team that wins game five will win the series. Unless we lose game five.