Basketball Quotes - Page 21

• Play the game with a smile.

  Earl Monroe

  Games, Play, Inspirational Basketball

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• Teamwork is really a form of trust. It's what happens when you surrender the mistaken idea that you can go it alone and realize that you won't achieve your individual goals without the support of your colleagues.

  Pat Summitt

  Teamwork, Ideas, Goal

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.124, Crown Business

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• The only way to get people to like working hard is to motivate them. Today, people must understand why they're working hard. Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different.

  Rick Pitino

  Motivational, Powerful, Organization

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• Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing!

  Pat Riley

  Sports, Determination, Adversity

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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• Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

  Pat Riley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.

  Pat Riley

  Motivation, Attitude, Winning

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  A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

  Jackie Robinson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational Sports

  "I Never Had It Made: An Autobiography of Jackie Robinson". Book by Jackie Robinson and Alfred Duckett, 1972.

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• Don't let what other people think decide who you are.

  Dennis Rodman

  Thinking, People, Who You Are

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• This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is.

  Dennis Rodman

  Motivational, Swimming, Diving Deep

  FaceBook post by Dennis Rodman from Jul 19, 2016

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• If you look up the definition of greatness in the dictionary, it will say Michael Jordan.

  Elgin Baylor

  Greatness, Jordan, Looks

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• Scoring 100 points is a lot, but I maybe could have scored 140 if they had played straight-up basketball.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Straight Up, Ifs

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• It's heavy duty to try to do everything and please everybody . . . My job was to go out there and play the game of basketball as best I can, ... People may not agree with that . . . I can't live with what everyone's impression of what I should or what I shouldn't do.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Jobs, Nba

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• Basketball is basketball.

  Oscar Robertson

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• Some things you just can't question. Like you can't question why two plus two is four. So don't question it, don't try to look it up. I don't know who made it, all I know is it was put in my head that two plus two is four. So certain things happen. Why does it rain? Why am I so sexy? I don't know.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Sexy, Rain, Two

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• I'm like a superhero. Call me Basketball Man.

  LeBron James

  Men, Superhero, Call Me

  "LeBron James is next" by Tom Friend, www.espn.com. December 23, 2002.

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• In practice, don't just run basketball drills, teach the players how to play basketball.

  Don Meyer

  Running, Player, Practice

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• I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

  Larry Bird

  Talking, Nba, Lord

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• I'm always hungry. I want to be the best.

  Kevin Durant

  Want, Being The Best, Hungry

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• It's better to have a good player with the basketball in late game situations than to have plays.

  Rick Pitino

  Player, Games, Coaching

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• The only important statistic is the final score.

  Bill Russell

  Nba, Important, Finals

  "At 75, Russell still casts long shadow over All-Star circus" by Mark Woods, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2009.

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• Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.

  Yao Ming

  America, Culture, Language

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Stand up for your players. Show them you care on and off the court.

  Red Auerbach

  Player, Care, Court

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• My relationship with Northeast Ohio is bigger than basketball. I didn't realize that four years ago. I do now.

  LeBron James

  Ohio, Years, Four

  "LeBron James returning to Cleveland, where he has unfinished business" by Jason Hanna, www.cnn.com. July 11, 2014.

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• Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.

  Bobby Knight

  Men, Nba, Weapons

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• People want to be on a team. They want to be part of something bigger than themselves. They want to be in a situation where they feel that they are doing something for the greater good.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Volleyball, Team, People

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