Inspirational Basketball/ Any Sport Quotes
"Quoted" by Basketball Legands,Coaches,Professionals,etc..

Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.

Larry Bird


Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We.

Phil Jackson


How do you go from where you are to where you want to be? I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal, and you have to be willing to work for it

Jim Valvano

Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.

Jim Valvano

Push yourself again and again. Don’t give up an inch until the final buzzer sounds.

Larry Bird

Leaders have to search for the heart on a team, because the person who has it can bring out the best in everybody else.

Mike Krzyzewski

There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either IN or you're OUT. There's no such thing as life in-between.

Pat Riley


Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.

Al Maguire


To be a team, you must be a family.

Don Meyer


The only place that success is before work is in the dictionary.

John Wooden


I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

Larry Bird


Players are made in the off season, teams are made during the season.

Author Unknown

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

John Wooden


What to do with a mistake--recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.

Dean Smith


We're shooting 100 percent - 60 percent from the field and 40 percent from the free-throw line.

Norm Stewart


What you are as a person is far more important that what you are as a basketball player.

John Wooden


Basketball doesn't build character it reveals it.

Author Unknown


The best teams have chemistry. They communicate with each other and they sacrifice personal glory for the common goal.

Dave DeBusschere


You can't win unless you learn how to lose.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar


The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.

Magic Johnson


A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.

Julius Erving