Basketball Quotes - Page 37

• Winning teams at the NBA level, the college level, and the high school level all play team basketball. Championship teams have five players on the same page at all times.

  Hubie Brown

  Team, School, Winning

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• Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.

  Bill Russell

  Team, Nba, Important

  Bill Russell, David Falkner (2001). “Russell Rules: 11 Lessons on Leadership from the Twentieth Century's Greatest Winner”, p.36, Penguin

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• Winners are losers who got up and gave it one more try.

  Dennis DeYoung

  Success, Perseverance, Ambition

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• It's not up to anyone else to make me give my best.

  Hakeem Olajuwon

  Sports, Ambition, Nba

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• Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Art, Hurt, Philosophy

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• We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.

  Bobby Knight

  Hard Work, Hockey, Player

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• When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder. Show the world how much you'll fight for the winners circle. If you do, someday the cellophane will crackle off a fresh pack, one that belongs to you, and the cards will be stacked in your favor.

  Pat Riley

  Inspirational, Success, Sports

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

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• I'll always be Number 1 to myself.

  Moses Malone

  Sports, Hockey, Numbers

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• A winner never whines.

  Paul Brown

  Motivational, Sports, Football

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• An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

  Red Auerbach

  Motivational, Sports, Keeping Promises

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• It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.

  John Wooden

  Sports, Perseverance, Funny Inspirational

  "The Graduation Speech I Never Got to Give" by Laura Myers, ndsmcobserver.com. May 20, 2011.

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• You can never have enough talent.

  Pat Riley

  Sports, Coaching, Talent

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• The most important quality I look for in a player is accountability. You've got to be accountable for who you are. It's too easy to blame things on someone else.

  Lenny Wilkens

  Motivational, Sports, Player

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• Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.

  Al McGuire

  Motivational, Sports, Simple

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• Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.

  Bill Walton

  Motivational, Sports, Team

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• The coach should be the absolute boss, but he still should maintain an open mind.

  Red Auerbach

  Sports, Boss, Coaching

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

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Sports, Journey, Nba

  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 person really doesn't become whole, until he becomes a part of something that's bigger than himself.

  Jim Valvano

  Motivational, Sports, Coaching

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

  John Wooden

  Sports, Teamwork, Player

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• In the end, the game comes down to one thing: man against man. May the best man win.

  Sam Huff

  Inspirational, Sports, Athlete

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• I have a rule on my team: When we talk to one another, we look each other right in the eye, because I think it's tough to lie to somebody. You give respect to somebody.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Sports, Lying, Team

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

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• Don't let other people tell you what you want.

  Pat Riley

  Inspirational, Karma, Volleyball

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• I'm a firm believer in goal setting. Step by step. I can't see any other way of accomplishing anything.

  Michael Jordan

  Accomplishment, Goal, Way

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• Don't let winning make you soft. Don't let losing make you quit. Don't let your teammates down in any situation.

  Larry Bird

  Sports, Winning, Nba

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• I'd like to thank everyone who voted for me. And the one guy who didn't vote for me, thank you, too.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Inspirational, Sports, Guy

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