Motivational Basketball Quotes - Page 7

Your ability to communicate to your young people will determine your success.

Jim Harrick

Basketball, People, Coaching

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False Hustle = cheap fouls, lunging, reaching, etc.

Billy Donovan

Basketball, Coaching, Hustle

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Your program must have an overriding purpose which is clearly visible and which teaches lessons beyond winning.

Don Meyer

Basketball, Winning, Coaching

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When you watch the game, be a student of the game.

Don Meyer

Basketball, Games, Coaching

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Recognize and reward players who put the team first, not just the gifted ones.

Don Meyer

Basketball, Team, Player

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They said you have to use your five best players but I found you win with the five who fit together the best.

Red Auerbach

Basketball, Winning, Player

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What you specifically teach is what your players will do best.

Dick Bennett

Basketball, Player, Coaching

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Every day you teach attitude.

Don Meyer

Basketball, Attitude, Coaching

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Successful programs consist of people working hard, working together, while never worrying about who gets the credit.

Don Meyer

Basketball, Hard Work, Successful

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When the legs go, the heart and the head follow quickly behind.

Don Meyer

Basketball, Heart, Coaching

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Defense doesn't break down on the help, it breaks down on the recovery.

Chuck Daly

Basketball, Recovery, Coaching

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Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.

Bo Jackson

Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

Bo Jackson, Dick Schaap (1990). “Bo knows Bo: the autobiography of a ballplayer”, Doubleday Books

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One man cannot make a team.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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If you are afraid of failure, you don't deserve success.

Nastia Liukin

Basketball, Sports, Athlete

Twitter post from Jan 3, 2012

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Discipline and demand without being demeaning.

Don Meyer

Basketball, Discipline, Coaching

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If you get tough mentally, you can get tough physically and overcome fatigue.

Pat Riley

Basketball, Coaching, Overcoming

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

John Wooden

Basketball, Choices, Coaching

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A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are.

Ara Parseghian

Motivational, Sports, Teamwork

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Champions play as they practice. Create a consistency of excellence in all your habits.

Mike Krzyzewski

Basketball, Practice, Nba

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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Wilt Chamberlain

Basketball, Sports, Famous Inspirational

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I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.

Shaquille O'Neal

Funny, Basketball, Money

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Every season is a journey. Every journey is a lifetime.

Mike Krzyzewski

Basketball, Sports, Journey

Mike Krzyzewski, Donald T. Phillips (2010). “Leading with the Heart: Coach K's Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business, and Life”, p.52, Hachette UK

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Teams that play together beat those with superior players who play more as individuals.

Jack Ramsay

Basketball, Team, Player

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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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The most important quality I look for in a player is accountability. You've got to be accountable for who you are. It's too easy to blame things on someone else.

Lenny Wilkens

Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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