Best Inspirational Basketball Quotes

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.

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.

Don’t try to imitate other coaches. Be your own person with your own style and do your own thing.

People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going.

Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.

He who controlleth the backboard, controlleth the game.

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Not only is there more to life than basketball, there’s a lot more to basketball than basketball.

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.

You never make any of the shots you never take. 87% of the ones you do take, you’ll miss too. I make 110% of my shots.

Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise

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

I’m just going to play whatever game is in front of me.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

I’m surrounded by nothing but great people. I’ve been blessed with that, so really, I’ve got no choice but to be an all-around good person.

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

I enjoy jokes, smiling, and making people smile. I may be a little different, but that’s OK, who wants to be normal anyway?

I’m not the guy who’s afraid of failure. I like to take risks, take the big shot and all that.

Success is not an accident, success is actually a choice.

Every time I rise up, I have confidence that I’m going to make it.

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

The stats win nothing. I’m still sexy. I’m still great.

I don’t know what I’m going to do tomorrow. I just know for sure I’m going to keep playing basketball.

You can’t win unless you learn how to lose.

I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.

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

Sometimes you come up against a mountain and you end up making the mountain seem bigger than God.

All really successful coaches have a system.

It isn’t about what you do, but how you do it

Teams that play together beat those with superior players who play more as individuals.

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.