Basketball Success Quotes

• The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Basketball, Wisdom

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

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

  James Naismith

  Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

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  The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.71, Thomas Nelson

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• Even when I'm old and grey, I won't be able to play it, but I'll still love the game.

  Michael Jordan

  Love, Motivational, Basketball

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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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• Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.

  Michael Jordan

  Motivational, Positive, Basketball

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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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• I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

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• If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Inspiration, Athlete

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• I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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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• There's more to life than basketball. The most important thing is your family and taking care of each other and loving each other no matter what.

  Stephen Curry

  Basketball, Mvp, Important

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• There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

  Joe Strummer

  Perseverance, Determination, Persistence

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• Your ability to communicate to your young people will determine your success.

  Jim Harrick

  Basketball, People, Coaching

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• Successful programs consist of people working hard, working together, while never worrying about who gets the credit.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Hard Work, Successful

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• What I tell people is be the best version of yourself in anything that you do. You don't have to live anybody else's story.

  Stephen Curry

  Mvp, People, Stories

  "NBA MVP Stephen Curry Seizes The Moment And Delivers His Message" by Jerry Barca, www.forbes.com. May 8, 2015.

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• I can get better. I haven't reached my ceiling yet on how well I can shoot the basketball.

  Stephen Curry

  Basketball, Get Better, Ceilings

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• Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Perseverance, Determination, Persistence

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Nba, Trying

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

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• I'd rather be a non-All-Star playing in the Western Conference finals than an All-Star who's sitting at home in May.

  Stephen Curry

  Stars, Home, Finals

  "Stephen Curry's killer instinct". Interview with Sam Alipour, www.espn.com.au. December 11, 2013.

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• All really successful coaches have a system.

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Successful, Coaching

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• Being a superstar means you've reached your potential, and I don't think I've reached my potential as a basketball player and as a leader yet.

  Stephen Curry

  Basketball, Mean, Player

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

  Stephen Curry

  Choices, Inspirational Basketball, Motivational Basketball

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• Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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