Basketball Player Quotes

Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.

Larry Bird

Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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

Dean Smith

Basketball, Beautiful, Player

Dean Smith, Gerald D. Bell, John Kilgo (2004). “The Carolina Way: Leadership Lessons from a Life in Coaching”, p.142, Penguin

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

Scottie Pippen

Basketball, Teamwork, Inspirational Sports

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To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.

Michael Jordan

Motivational, Success, Basketball

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Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

Michael Jordan

Inspirational, Basketball, Sports

Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

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And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.

Shaquille O'Neal

Basketball, Jobs, Player

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The best teams have chemistry. They communicate with each other and they sacrifice personal glory for a common goal.

Dave DeBusschere

Motivational, Basketball, Team

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We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.

Jason Kidd

Teamwork, Sports, Witty

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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Michael Jordan

Basketball, Sports, Fun

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

Michael Jordan

Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

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I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.

Michael Jordan

Inspirational, Positive, Basketball

Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

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A lot of late nights in the gym, a lot of early mornings, especially when your friends are going out, you're going to the gym, those are the sacrifices that you have to make if you want to be an NBA basketball player.

Jason Kidd

Motivational, Basketball, Morning

FaceBook post by Jason Kidd from Dec 01, 2011

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

Larry Bird

Basketball, Winning, Balls

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Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Motivational, Basketball, Giving Up

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My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.

Michael Jordan

Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

Michael Jordan, Walter Iooss, Mark Vancil (1995). “I'm back!: more rare air”, Harpercollins

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Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

Michael Jordan

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

Larry Bird

Inspirational, Basketball, Dream

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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Wilt Chamberlain

Basketball, Sports, Famous Inspirational

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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.

Charles Barkley

Basketball, Sports, Shoes

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Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.

Michael Jordan

Motivational, Positive, Basketball

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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.

John Wooden

Basketball, Motivational Sports, Character

Andrew Hill, John Wooden (2002). “Be Quick - But Don't Hurry: Finding Success in the Teachings of a Lifetime”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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You play with your soul as well as your body.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Basketball, Athlete, Play

"Ironman champ: Train your brain, then your body" by Chrissie Wellington, www.cnn.com. February 21, 2012.

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One man cannot make a team.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

Larry Bird

Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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There are plenty of teams in every sport that have great players and never win titles. Most of the time, those players aren't willing to sacrifice for the greater good of the team. The funny thing is, in the end, their unwillingness to sacrifice only makes individual goals more difficult to achieve. One thing I believe to the fullest is that if you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.

Michael Jordan

Inspirational, Basketball, Sports

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