Fundamentals Quotes

• 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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• The best solution for falling just short of the goal is to focus on the fundamentals but perform them better.

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Football, Fall

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• Economic history is the most fundamental branch of history; not the most important. Foundations exist to carry better things.

  John Clapham

  Challenges, Inspire, Important

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• 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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• 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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• There's so many young peoople who start to play basketball and never learn the fundamentals.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Play, Young

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• In a world of constant change, the fundamentals are more important than ever.

  James C. Collins

  Communication, Important, World

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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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• First master the fundamentals.

  Larry Bird

  Basketball, Sports, Self Motivation

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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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• 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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• The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.

  Earl Weaver

  Sports, Baseball, Running

  Investiture Speech by Mark Becker, Georgia State University President, president.gsu.edu. October 20, 2009.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It's all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net.

  Meg Whitman

  Business, Technology, People

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• Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Motivation, Ideas, Progress

  Alfred North Whitehead (2014). “Science and Philosophy”, p.142, Open Road Media

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• Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspiring, Education, Teacher

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.107, Best Books on

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• The book is there for inspiration and as a foundation, the fundamentals on which to build.

  Thomas Keller

  Book, Inspiration, Foundation

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• However, please allow me to say that the fundamental style of my writing has been to start from my personal matters and then to link it up with society, the state and the world.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  Writing, Style, Matter

  Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 07, 1994.

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