Great Basketball Quotes - Page 4

• The true warrior understands and seizes that moment by giving an effort so intense and so intuitive that it could only be called one from the heart.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Heart, Warrior

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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• I never thought a role model should be negative.

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Role Models, Negative

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• If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.

  Pat Riley

  Positive, Basketball, Motivational Sports

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• People want to be on a team. They want to be part of something bigger than themselves. They want to be in a situation where they feel that they are doing something for the greater good.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Volleyball, Team

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• Remember this, the choices you make in life, make you.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Choices, Coaching

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• If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special.

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Thinking, Nba

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

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• Winning is like deodorant - it comes up and a lot of things don't stink.

  Doc Rivers

  Basketball, Winning, Deodorant

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• Play off your great player... great teams have a go-to player and they play off of him.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Team, Player

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• My mom always tells me that... Nobody is going to remember you for the great basketball player you are but they will remember you for the character you have off the court and how many lives you're changed.

  Isaiah Austin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

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• Great players never look in the mirror and think I'm a great basketball player. You ask yourself, Am I the best player I can be?

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Player, Thinking

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• It's going to be crazy. All eight teams here are good teams. Hopefully the atmosphere will be great because it's going to be great basketball.

  Chris Kraus

  Basketball, Crazy, Team

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• Michael Jordan didn’t become a great basketball player because he wanted to do product endorsements. Van Gogh didn’t become a great painter because he dreamed that one day his paintings would sell for $50 million.

  Jack D. Schwager

  Basketball, Player, One Day

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• You don't have to be best friends as basketball players but I do believe in chemistry. I think it makes everything different if a team is really together and they're all on that same page. They might not like each other, per se, but if you're on the same page and the chemistry is there, you can play great basketball. You can go back to teams like Detroit, the Bad Boys. Those guys had great chemistry, that's why they won.

  Dwight Howard

  Basketball, Team, Believe

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• They played exquisite basketball in this series and in particular these last three games. They are the better team. There is no other way to say it. They played great basketball, and we couldn't respond to it.

  Erik Spoelstra

  Basketball, Team, Nba Championships

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• The Leftovers is a great basketball book that shines a light on what true competitors can overcome with a solid work ethic.

  Tony Romo

  Basketball, Book, Light

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