Famous Basketball Quotes - Page 6

• Never underestimate the heart of a champion.

  Rudy Tomjanovich

  Basketball, Sports, Motivation

  Rudy Tomjanovich (1997). “A Rocket at Heart: My Life and My Team”

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• You can't pick and choose the days that you feel like being responsible. It's not something that disappears when you're tired.

  Pat Summitt

  Basketball, Tired, Responsible

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.34, Crown Business

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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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• The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Motivational, Encouragement, Determination

  Thomas Moore, Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1826). “Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan: In Two Volumes”, p.195

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• Heart in champions has to do with the depth of our motivation and how well your mind and body react to pressure - that is, being able to do what you do best under maximum pain and stress.

  Bill Russell

  Basketball, Pain, Motivation

  Bill Russell, Taylor Branch (1980). “Second wind: the memoirs of an opinionated man”

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• It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defeats than to boast of our attainments.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Basketball, Defeat, Attainment

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• A man is as big as the measure of his thinking.

  Napoleon Hill

  Basketball, Men, Thinking

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• It's my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out.

  Pat Summitt

  Basketball, People, Expectations

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.151, Crown Business

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• Attitude lies somewhere between emotion and logic. It's that curious mix of optimism and determination that enables you to maintain a positive outlook and to continue plodding in the face of the most adverse circumstances.

  Pat Summitt

  Basketball, Determination, Attitude

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.135, Crown Business

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• Give your dreams all you've got, and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.

  William James

  Basketball, Dream, Perseverance

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• I can't stand a ballplayer who plays in fear. Anybody who has a good shot has got to take it and keep taking it. So he misses...so what?

  Red Auerbach

  Basketball, Play, Missing

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• There is generally not any conscious thought; it's all instinct, and practice takes over.

  Cindy Nelson

  Basketball, Practice, Instinct

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• By itself, practice does not make perfect. Those of us with a ten-year-old son practicing the trumpet may understand that.

  Daniel Hanley

  Basketball, Son, Years

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• There are some concrete ways to create a winning attitude. But nothing beats practicing it. When you prepare to win, belief comes easily.

  Pat Summitt

  Basketball, Attitude, Winning

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.139, Crown Business

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• Talent is not enough. It's an important component in a successful performance, but it's really only a starting point.

  Tony DiCicco

  Basketball, Successful, Important

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• Be a famous musician. Be a famous act or. Be a famous write r. Be a famous basketball player. Be famous.

  Dallas Clayton

  Basketball, Writing, Player

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• Don't believe everything you hear - even in your own mind.

  Daniel Amen

  Basketball, Believe, Mind

  Daniel Amen (2008). “Healing the Hardware of the Soul: Enhance Your Brain to Improve Your Work, Love, and Spiritual Life”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• Attitude is a choice. What you think you can do, whether positive or negative, confident or scared, will most likely happen.

  Pat Summitt

  Basketball, Attitude, Thinking

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.136, Crown Business

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• You can't hire someone to practice for you.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Practice, Practise

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• For every pass I caught in a game, I caught a thousand in practice.

  Don Hutson

  Basketball, Practice, Games

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• To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Inspirational, Happiness, Karma

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  In life, never spend more than 10 percent of your time on the problem, and spend at least 90 percent of your time on the solution.

  Tony Robbins

  Basketball, Problem, Percent

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Oct 10, 2014

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• Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

  John Ruskin

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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• A successful person realizes his personal responsibility for self-motivation. He starts with himself because he possesses the key to his own ignition switch.

  Kemmons Wilson

  Motivational, Success, Basketball

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