Basketball Teamwork Quotes

Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We.

Phil Jackson

Basketball, Teamwork, Sports

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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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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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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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Basketball is a beautiful game when the five players on the court play with one heartbeat.

Dean Smith

Basketball, Beautiful, Player

Dean Smith, Gerald D. Bell, John Kilgo (2004). “The Carolina Way: Leadership Lessons from a Life in Coaching”, p.142, Penguin

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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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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Helen Keller

Inspirational, Leadership, Loyalty

"Helen and Teacher: The Story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy". Book by Joseph P. Lash, 1980.

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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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I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

Michael Jordan

Inspirational, Motivational, Change

"I Can't Accept Not Trying : Michael Jordan on the Pursuit of Excellence". Book by Michael Jordan (p. 129), 1994.

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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Michael Jordan

Basketball, Sports, Fun

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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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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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When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Pat Riley

Teamwork, Effort, Decision

Pat Riley (1993). “Winner Within Success”, Putnam Publishing Group

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Winning teams at the NBA level, the college level, and the high school level all play team basketball. Championship teams have five players on the same page at all times.

Hubie Brown

Basketball, Team, School

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If you quit ONCE it becomes a habit.Never quit!!!

Michael Jordan

Inspirational, Basketball, Business

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Basketball, Teamwork, Sports

Twitter post from Mar 27, 2013

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Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Vince Lombardi

Inspirational, Motivational, Success

"Full Text of Governor Ikpeazu’s Inaugural Speech". dailypost.ng. May 30, 2015.

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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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If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

Michael Jordan

Motivational, Basketball, Running

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

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I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.

Michael Jordan

Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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

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Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

Andrew Carnegie

Inspirational, Leadership, Teamwork

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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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Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.

Bill Russell

Basketball, Team, Nba

Bill Russell, David Falkner (2001). “Russell Rules: 11 Lessons on Leadership from the Twentieth Century's Greatest Winner”, p.36, Penguin

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Joe Paterno

Teamwork, Confidence, Reality

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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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