Encouraging Basketball Quotes - Page 2

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

Red Auerbach

Basketball, Sports, Boss

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Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

Henry Ford

Inspirational, Success, Leadership

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What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.

Dean Smith

Inspiring, Basketball, Sports

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It doesn't matter who scores the points, it's who can get the ball to the scorer.

Larry Bird

Basketball, Winning, Balls

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The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

Vince Lombardi

Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.70, Thomas Nelson Inc

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Will Durant

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.

Vince Lombardi

Inspirational, Motivational, Running

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

James Naismith

Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

Al McGuire

Leadership, Basketball, Sports

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Basketball is a game that gives you every chance to be great, and puts every pressure on you to prove that you haven't got what it takes. It never takes away the chance, and it never eases up on the pressure.

Bob Sundvold

Inspirational, Basketball, Games

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I was in the right place at the right time.

Mel Allen

Photography, Perseverance, Good Luck

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Champions never complain, they are too busy getting better

John Wooden

Champion, Get Better, Complaining

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

Al McGuire

Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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Coaches build teams, parents build players.

Charles Piazzi Smyth

Motivational, Sports, Team

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Criticize on defense and encourage on offense.

John Brady

Basketball, Coaching, Defense

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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Essays "Circles" (1841)

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A lot of guys go through their whole careers and don't win a championship, but are still great coaches.

Chuck Daly

Basketball, Winning, Careers

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Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win.

Bobby Knight

Basketball, Motivational Sports, Winning

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So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt

Courage, Badass, Military

Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 Apr. 1910. Richard M. Nixon quoted this passage in his address to the nation announcing his decision to resign the presidency, 8 Aug. 1974. See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 5

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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 learned early that if I wanted to achieve anything in life, I'd have to do it myself. I learned that I had to be accountable.

Lenny Wilkens

Basketball, Coaching, Achieve

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Remember this, the choices you make in life, make you.

John Wooden

Basketball, Choices, Coaching

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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Robert Kennedy

Inspirational, Success, Encouraging

Robert F. Kennedy (1967). “To seek a newer world”, Doubleday Books

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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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I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

Abraham Lincoln

Motivational, Niece, Mean

Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.44, Courier Corporation

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