Fundamentals Quotes

• Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Nba, Levels

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

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• You can practice shooting eight hours a day, but if your technique is wrong, then all you become is very good at shooting the wrong way. Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise.

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Eight, Practice

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

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• Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 27, 2016

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• The minute you get away from fundamentals – whether its proper technique, work ethic or mental preparation – the bottom can fall out of your game, your schoolwork, your job, whatever you’re doing.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Jobs, Fall

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• Success is all about consistency around the fundamentals.

  Robin Sharma

  Greatness, Consistency

  Robin Sharma (2006). “The Greatness Guide: One of the World's Most Successful Coaches Shares His Secrets for Personal and Business Mastery”, p.12, Jaico Publishing House

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• First master the fundamentals.

  Larry Bird

  Basketball, Sports, Self Motivation

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• Learn the fundamentals of the game and stick to them. Band-Aid remedies never last.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Learning, Games, Band

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• In the end, it's extra effort that separates a winner from second place. But winning takes a lot more that that, too. It starts with complete command of the fundamentals. Then it takes desire, determination, discipline, and self-sacrifice. And finally, it takes a great deal of love, fairness and respect for your fellow man. Put all these together, and even if you don't win, how can you lose?

  Jesse Owens

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Giving, Compromise, Surrender

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• I had to spend countless hours, above and beyond the basic time, to try and perfect the fundamentals.

  Julius Erving

  Motivational, Basketball, Perfect

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

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• The right to happiness is fundamental.

  Anna Pavlova

  Happiness, Happy, Being Happy

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• Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein, Leopold Infeld (1966). “Evolution of Physics”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• When I was young, I had to learn the fundamentals of basketball. You can have all the physical ability in the world, but you still have to know the fundamentals.

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Champion, World

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• Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Motivational, Basketball, Games

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• We talked about some of our experiences, focusing, hanging together down the stretch, important games. It's not necessarily who has the most talent but what team sticks together and executes their fundamentals the best.

  Tony Dungy

  Team, Games, Important

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• Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.

  Greg LeMond

  Sports, Cycling, Racing

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• Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause.

  William J. Brennan

  Use, Fairness, Confession

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• The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

  Amelia Earhart

  Appreciation, Women, Home

  "Soaring Wings : A Biography of Amelia Earhart". Book by George Palmer Putnam, 1939.

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• Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.

  Miles Franklin

  Relationship, Smile, Money

  Miles Franklin (2017). “Childhood At Brindabella: My First Ten Years”, p.114, ETT Imprint

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• Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.

  Milan Kundera

  Love, Peace, Nature

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.

  Jan Peter Balkenende

  Moving On, Taught Us, Experience

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• The bottom line is, insults only hurt when they come from someone I respect.

  Kresley Cole

  Respect, Hurt, Insulting

  Kresley Cole (2012). “Lothaire”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• I didn't arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Thinking

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• I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.

  Zac Efron

  Cartoon, Tunes, Taught

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• Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.

  William Feather

  Hard Work, Quality, Advancement

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