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.

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

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

By itself, practice does not make perfect. Those of us with a ten-year-old son practicing the trumpet may understand that.

Pressure can burst a pipe, or pressure can make a diamond.

I can’t stand a ballplayer who plays in fear. Anybody who has a good shot has got to take it and keep taking it. So he misses…so what?

Belief in yourself is what happens when you know you’ve done the thing things that entitle you to success.

In order to grow, you must accept new responsibilities, no matter how uncertain you may feel or how unprepared you are to deal with them.

It’s my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

With attitude, you can determine your own performance.

There are some concrete ways to create a winning attitude. But nothing beats practicing it. When you prepare to win, belief comes easily.

You can’t pick and choose the days that you feel like being responsible. It’s not something that disappears when you’re tired.

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.

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

If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball.

The only way you’re going to get through life, happily, is being yourself.

If you are afraid of failure, you don’t deserve success.

The problem with many athletes is they take themselves seriously and their sport lightly.

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

It doesn’t matter who scores the points, it’s who can get the ball to the scorer.

When I go to the line I’m thinking ‘All net.’ When I don’t think that, I’m likely to miss.

Once you are labeled ‘the best’ you want to stay up there, and you can’t do it by loafing around.

In life, never spend more than 10 percent of your time on the problem, and spend at least 90 percent of your time on the solution.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.

A winner never stops trying.

Realize that the hardest step in achieving anything is making a true commitment.

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy.

Don’t get angry; get better.

As we develop new beliefs about who we are, our behavior will change to support the new identity.

Talent is not enough. It’s an important component in a successful performance, but it’s really only a starting point.

Don’t whine. Find the positive in difficult situations.