Winning Basketball Quotes

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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The secret of winning is working more as a team, less as individuals.

Knute Rockne

Basketball, Team, Winning

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We win because we play together as a team.

John Havlicek

Basketball, Team, Winning

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This is a team game and one man doesn't win and one man doesn't lose. In the end, the best team usually wins.

Wilt Chamberlain

Basketball, Team, Men

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I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.

Michael Jordan

Success, Basketball, Inspirational Sports

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

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Basketball, Sports, Winning

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A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.

Larry Bird

Inspirational, Success, Basketball

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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There are plenty of teams in every sport that have great players and never win titles. Most of the time, those players aren't willing to sacrifice for the greater good of the team. The funny thing is, in the end, their unwillingness to sacrifice only makes individual goals more difficult to achieve. One thing I believe to the fullest is that if you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.

Michael Jordan

Inspirational, Basketball, Sports

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I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

Kobe Bryant

Inspirational, Basketball, Attitude

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I play to win, whether during practice or a real game.

Michael Jordan

Inspirational, Basketball, Real

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You can't be afraid to fail. It's the only way you succeed - you're not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

LeBron James

Basketball, Inspiration, Way

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Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Stevie Wonder

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Basketball is a team game. But that doesn't mean all five players should have the same amount of shots.

Dean Smith

Basketball, Team, Mean

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I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.

John Wooden

Basketball, Motivational Sports, Character

"The Wizard's wisdom: 'Woodenisms'", www.espn.com. June 4, 2010.

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Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.

Pat Summitt

Basketball, Winning, Coaching

Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.194, Crown Business

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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, Basketball, Motivational Sports

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

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I like criticism. It makes you strong.

LeBron James

Basketball, Strong, Inspiration

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It's not whether you win or lose - but whether I win or lose.

Sandy Lyle

Sports, Funny Inspirational, Golf

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

John Wooden

Basketball, Beautiful, God

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If you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.

Michael Jordan

Basketball, Teamwork, Thinking

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

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Coaching is easy. Winning is the hard part.

Elgin Baylor

Basketball, Winning, Coaching

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Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost.

Martina Navratilova

Inspirational, Funny, Sports

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I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Life, Motivational, Success

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Systems win! Believe in your system, and then sell it to your players.

Billy Donovan

Basketball, Believe, Player

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