Great Basketball Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.70, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.

  Scottie Pippen

  Basketball, Teamwork, Inspirational Sports

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• Good, Better, Best. Never let it rest. Until your Good is Better, and your Better is your Best.

  Unknown

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Dedication, Teamwork and Camaraderie: Tim Duncan" by Angela Guzman, www.beliefnet.com.

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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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• 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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• 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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• Basketball doesn't build character it reveals it.

  James Naismith

  Basketball, Character, Inspirational Basketball

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• The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.

  Bill Russell

  Basketball, Motivational Sports, Block

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• Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals.

  James Naismith

  Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

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• If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.

  Dean Smith

  Inspirational, Funny, Basketball

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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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  You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

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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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  Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.

  Red Auerbach

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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• Great players and great teams want to be driven. They want to be pushed to the edge. They don't want to be cheated. Ordinary players and average teams want it to be easy

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Team, Player

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• If you want to thank me, go do something for somebody else

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Nba, Want

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• A person really doesn't become whole, until he becomes a part of something that's bigger than himself.

  Jim Valvano

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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• If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.

  Jim Valvano

  Thinking, Laughing, Cry

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

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• Champions never complain, they are too busy getting better

  John Wooden

  Champion, Get Better, Complaining

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• Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.

  Phil Jackson

  Love, Inspirational, Basketball

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have learned that peace is not the absence of trial, trouble, or torment but the presence of calm in the midst of them

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Nba, Trials

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• College coaches measure success in championships. High School coaches measure success to titles. Youth coaches measure success in smiles.

  Paul McAllister

  School, College, Coaching

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• There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'

  David Halberstam

  Basketball, Professional Sports, Awesome Sports

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