Best Basketball Quotes

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

  Nastia Liukin

  Basketball, Sports, Athlete

  Twitter post from Jan 3, 2012

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• One man cannot make a team.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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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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• Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Motivational Sports, Character

  Andrew Hill, John Wooden (2002). “Be Quick - But Don't Hurry: Finding Success in the Teachings of a Lifetime”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• You always have to give 100%,because if you don't someone, somewhere will give 100% and they will beat you when you meet.

  Ed Macauley

  Life, Basketball, Business

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• It's not how big you are, it's how big you play.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Play, Bigs

  "How (and why) position-less lineups have taken over the NBA playoffs" by Ian McMahan, www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2018.

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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, Basketball, Dream

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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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• Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.

  Scottie Pippen

  Basketball, Teamwork, Inspirational Sports

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• The best teams have chemistry. They communicate with each other and they sacrifice personal glory for a common goal.

  Dave DeBusschere

  Motivational, Basketball, Team

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  The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.

  Phil Jackson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

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• Pressure can burst a pipe, or pressure can make a diamond.

  Robert Horry

  Positive, Basketball, Pressure

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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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• I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence.

  Julius Erving

  Basketball, Home, Thinking

  "The Wondrous Dr. J". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

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• You can't win unless you learn how to lose.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Sports, Winning

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• Do your best when no one is looking.

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Nba Player, Famous Basketball

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• The only way you're going to get through life, happily, is being yourself.

  Nikki Blonsky

  Basketball, Being Yourself, Diving

  "Nikki Blonsky Talks to Seventeen About Huge!". Interview with Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. July 1, 2010.

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• I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now.

  Magic Johnson

  Basketball, Growing Up, Nba

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

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  All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.

  Magic Johnson

  Relationship, Basketball, Hope

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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  Everyting negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.

  Kobe Bryant

  Basketball, Opportunity, Nba

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• Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.

  Larry Bird

  Basketball, Sports, Nba

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  Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Basketball, Sports

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

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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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