Browsing Topic Best Great Basketball Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.

Basketball doesn’t build character it reveals it.

If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

What distinguishes a great player is his presence. When he goes on to the court, his presence dominates the atmosphere.

Great players never look in the mirror and think I’m a great basketball player. You ask yourself, Am I the best player I can be?

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

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.

Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.

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

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

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

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

If you make every game a life and death proposition, you’re going to have problems. For one thing, you’ll be dead a lot.

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

It’s going to be crazy. All eight teams here are good teams. Hopefully the atmosphere will be great because it’s going to be great basketball.

They played exquisite basketball in this series and in particular these last three games. They are the better team. There is no other way to say it. They played great basketball, and we couldn’t respond to it.

You don’t have to be best friends as basketball players but I do believe in chemistry. I think it makes everything different if a team is really together and they’re all on that same page. They might not like each other, per se, but if you’re on the same page and the chemistry is there, you can play great basketball. You can go back to teams like Detroit, the Bad Boys. Those guys had great chemistry, that’s why they won.

It is foolish to expect a young man to follow your advice and to ignore your example.

Winning is like deodorant – it comes up and a lot of things don’t stink.

I have learned that peace is not the absence of trial, trouble, or torment but the presence of calm in the midst of them

Fans never fall asleep at our games, because they’re afraid they might get hit by a pass.

If you want to thank me, go do something for somebody else

Play off your great player… great teams have a go-to player and they play off of him.

To do the right thing at the right season is a great art.

Michael Jordan didn’t become a great basketball player because he wanted to do product endorsements. Van Gogh didn’t become a great painter because he dreamed that one day his paintings would sell for $50 million.

Never mistake activity for achievement.

Remember this, the choices you make in life, make you.

A player who makes a team great is better than a great player.

If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes.

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