Best Great 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.

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.

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

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?

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

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

Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.

If you’re trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I’ve had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

There’s a great quote by Julius Irving that went, ‘Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don’t feel like doing them.’

I never thought a role model should be negative.

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

When I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I got things exactly correct. My dream was to become a pro.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

Good, Better, Best. Never let it rest. Until your Good is Better, and your Better is your Best.

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

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

One man cannot make a team.

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

It’s not how big you are, it’s how big you play.

If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.

A person really doesn’t become whole, until he becomes a part of something that’s bigger than himself.

You can’t let praise or criticism get to you. It’s a weakness to get caught up in either one.

Champions never complain, they are too busy getting better

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

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

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

Basketball doesn’t build character it reveals it.

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

Never mistake activity for achievement.