Basketball Quotes - Page 7

• If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.

  Dean Smith

  Inspirational, Funny, Nba

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• I've had enough success for two lifetimes, My success is talent put together with hard work and luck.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Motivational, Work, Two

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• When I dunk, I put something on it. I want the ball to hit the floor before I do.

  Darryl Dawkins

  Sports, Balls, Hitting

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• Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Sports, Famous Inspirational, Roots

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• How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.

  Jim Valvano

  Motivational, Dream, Thinking

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

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• Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "This Speech Was Given Before The #4Women4AllWomen Run" by Powdered Feet, womensrunning.competitor.com. January 25, 2017.

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• I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if I missed, there was a lane violation, and I was given another one.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Winning, Games, Imagination

  American Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• I hate it. It looks like a stickup at 7-Eleven. Five guys standing there with their hands in the air.

  Norm Sloan

  Funny, Hate, Air

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• I knew I was dog meat. Luckily, I'm the high-priced dog meat that everybody wants. I'm the good-quality dog meat. I'm the Alpo of the NBA.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Funny, Dog, Nba

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• They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

  John Wooden

  Success, Mind, Religion

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

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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, Dream, Motivational Sports

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• I always know what's happening on the court. I see a situation occur, and I respond.

  Larry Bird

  Ears, Court, Situation

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• Good, Better, Best. Never let it rest. Until your Good is Better, and your Better is your Best.

  Unknown

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Dedication, Teamwork and Camaraderie: Tim Duncan" by Angela Guzman, www.beliefnet.com.

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• Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

  John Wooden

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  Fellowship of Christian Athletes, John Wooden (2010). “The Greatest Coach Ever: Timeless Wisdom and Insights of John Wooden”, p.101, Gospel Light Publications

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• If my primary purpose here at Indiana is to go out and win ballgames, I can probably do that as well as anybody can. I would just cheat, get some money from a lot of people around Indianapolis who want to run the operation that way, and just go out and get the best basketball players I can. Then we'd beat everybody.

  Bobby Knight

  Inspirational, Running, Winning

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• Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

  John Wooden

  Beautiful, God, Thankful

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• I look at the NBA as a football game without the helmet.

  Tom Tolbert

  Funny, Football, Nba

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• Boards, boards, boards.

  Knute Rockne

  Boards

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• If you are afraid of failure, you don't deserve success.

  Nastia Liukin

  Sports, Athlete, Gymnastics

  Twitter post from Jan 3, 2012

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• We're shooting 100 percent - 60 percent from the field and 40 percent from the free-throw line.

  Norm Stewart

  Inspirational, Shooting, Lines

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• What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.

  John Wooden

  Life, Motivational Sports, Player

  John Wooden (2013). “Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle”, p.29, B&H Publishing Group

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• When I went to Catholic high school in Philadelphia, we just had one coach for football and basketball. He took all of us who turned out and had us run through a forest. The ones who ran into the trees were on the football team.

  George Raveling

  Football, Running, Team

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• Never mistake activity for achievement.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Motivational Sports, Business

  John Wooden (1997). “Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court”, p.8, McGraw Hill Professional

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• I don't try to get players emotionally up for a game; it creates too many peaks and valleys... I strive for even keel; they will get up for the big games.

  Denny Crum

  Motivational Sports, Player, Games

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