Basketball Player Quotes - Page 5

• As far as carrying the torch for the years to come, I don't know. I just want to be the best basketball player I can be.

  Kobe Bryant

  Basketball, Player, Years

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• I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
  Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.
  I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, People, Wish

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

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Motivational, Basketball, Dream

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

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Teamwork, Sports

  Twitter post from Mar 27, 2013

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• You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Motivational Sports, Emotional

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• If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Sports, Running

  Charles Barkley, Roy S. Johnson (1993). “Outrageous!”

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

  Michael Jordan

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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

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  The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Differences, Shots

  Charles Barkley (2009). “Sir Charles: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles Barkley”, p.27, Hachette UK

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

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Men, Nba

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• I was a better basketball player growing up in high school than I was a swimmer. Basketball to this day is my favorite sport.

  Ryan Lochte

  Basketball, Sports, Growing Up

  "Ryan Lochte loves his mom, really wants to meet Lil Wayne (Fourth-Place Medal interview)". Interview with Chris Chase, sports.yahoo.com. May 8, 2012.

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• Kobe Bryant is my favorite basketball player. He takes risks. He goes for the shot. He isn't cautious with whatever he does.

  Haley Joel Osment

  Inspirational, Basketball, Player

  "Haley Joel Osment: What I've Learned" by Ross Johnson, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• I always wanted to be a basketball player. Nothing more, nothing less.

  Dirk Nowitzki

  Basketball, Player, Wanted

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• I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.

  Charles Barkley

  Motivational, Basketball, Games

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• I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

  Kobe Bryant

  Inspirational, Basketball, Attitude

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• I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Funny, Basketball, Money

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• Basketball is a team game. But that doesn't mean all five players should have the same amount of shots.

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Team, Mean

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• Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful at anything you put your mind to

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Kids, Hard Work

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• Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Sports, Nba

  Rick Pitino (1997). “Success is a Choice: Ten Steps to Overachieving in Business and Life”, Broadway

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• Every season is a journey. Every journey is a lifetime.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Sports, Journey

  Mike Krzyzewski, Donald T. Phillips (2010). “Leading with the Heart: Coach K's Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business, and Life”, p.52, Hachette UK

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

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Sports, Teamwork

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• If you quit ONCE it becomes a habit.Never quit!!!

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Basketball, Business

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• I play to win, whether during practice or a real game.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Basketball, Real

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• No player in the NBA was born wanting to play basketball. The desire to play ball or to read must be planted. The last 25 years of research show that reading aloud to a child is the oldest, cheapest and must successful method of instilling that desire. Shooting baskets with a child creates a basketball player; reading to a child creates a reader.

  Jim Trelease

  Basketball, Education, Children

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• For a college basketball player or coach, to reach the Final Four is la-la land. You’ve achieved, you’ve got your stamp of approval. My first team to do that was in 1986. Then we did it in ’88, ’89 and ’90.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Team, Player

  "Duke of the Court". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• Once you become a good person, then you have a chance of becoming a good basketball player.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Player, Becoming

  John Wooden, Jack Tobin, Bill Walton (2004). “They Call Me Coach”, McGraw Hill Professional

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