Memorable Positive Basketball Quotes

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"Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do."
Pelé
"The only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them."
Michelle Obama
"It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up."
Vince Lombardi
"I’m not afraid of failing. I’m afraid of not trying."
Jay Williams
"Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise."
Kobe Bryant
"I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying."
Michael Jordan
"What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?"
John Green
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"Effort is important, but knowing where to make an effort makes all the difference."
John Wooden
"I’m always trying to improve my game, to get better and better every day."
Stephen Curry
"If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win."
Carl Lewis
"Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time."
Marabel Morgan
"If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride – and never quit, you’ll be a winner."
Bear Bryant
"A champion is someone who gets up when they can’t."
Jack Dempsey
"Hard times don’t create heroes. It is during the hard times when the hero within us is revealed."
Bob Riley
"Be stronger than your strongest excuse."
Unknown
"The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes."
Benjamin Disraeli
"Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures."
Sammy Sosa
"The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It’s your mind you have to convince."
Vincent Lombardi
"There's no way around the hard work. Embrace it."
Kobe Bryant
"Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard."
Tim Notke
"It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get up."
Vince Lombardi
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"Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there."
John Wooden
"Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character."
John Wooden
"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog."
Archie Griffin
"In every game, there’s a moment when you have to make a choice: Let it go or give it all you’ve got!"
Unknown
"Good players inspire themselves, great players inspire others."
Unknown
"Push yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you."
Unknown
"I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I’ve been successful."
Michael Jordan
"The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning."
Pele
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success."
Albert Schweitzer
"With confidence, you have won before you have started."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right."
Henry Ford
"Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking."
William Butler Yeats
"Winners never quit and quitters never win."
Vince Lombardi
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"Set your goals high, and don’t stop until you get there."
Bo Jackson
"Basketball is like poetry in motion."
Maya Angelou
"The only way to prove that you are a good sport is to lose."
Ernie Banks
"I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I’ve succeeded."
Michael Jordan
"Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard."
Tim Notke
"It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get back up."
Vince Lombardi
"One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team."
Larry Bird
"What drives me is the constant search for excellence."
Jerry West
"The great thing about basketball is that you can have an incredibly bad game, and it takes one great game to find your confidence again."
Kobe Bryant
"Winning takes precedence over all. There's no gray area. No almosts."
Kobe Bryant
"You don’t stop playing because you get old; you get old because you stop playing."
Howard Aiken
"What makes a good coach? It’s not so much what you know but what you pass on to others."
Don Meyer
"Play for the name on the front of the jersey, and they’ll remember the name on the back."
Unknown
"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."
Winston Churchill
"You have to stay ready so you don’t have to get ready."
Will Smith
"Teamwork makes the dream work."
John C. Maxwell
"Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there."
Bo Jackson
"Your team will become as large as your dream."
Kevin Keegan
"You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take."
Wayne Gretzky
"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up."
Vince Lombardi
"You play to win the game."
Herm Edwards
"Believe you can and you're halfway there."
Theodore Roosevelt
"What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence."
Samuel Johnson
"The more I practice, the luckier I get."
Gary Player
"Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability."
John Wooden
"The only way to prove you are a good sport is to lose."
Ernie Banks
"You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get."
Michael Phelps
"Today’s accomplishments were yesterday’s impossibilities."
Robert H. Schuller
"Be the hardest working person you can be."
Grant Hill
"Success is where preparation and opportunity meet."
Bobby Unser
"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Opportunities don't happen. You create them."
Chris Grosser
"Everything is practice."
Pablo Picasso
"Winning is fun, but those moments that you can touch someone's life in a very positive way are better."
John Wooden
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Dream big and dare to fail."
Norman Vaughan
"True champions aren’t always the ones that win, but those with the most guts."
Mia Hamm
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."
Wayne Gretzky
"Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard."
Tim Notke
"Winning takes precedence over all. There’s no gray area. No almosts."
Kobe Bryant
"Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do."
Pelé
"The only way to prove that you’re a good sport is to lose."
Ernie Banks
"If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything."
John Wooden
"You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them."
Michael Jordan
"Believe you can and you’re halfway there."
Theodore Roosevelt
"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships."
Michael Jordan
"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary."
Vidal Sassoon
"It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get back up."
Vince Lombardi
"Champions keep playing until they get it right."
Billie Jean King
"It's not about the shoes, it's about what you do in them."
Michael Jordan
"The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces."
Will Rogers
"I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying."
Michael Jordan
"You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball."
John Wooden
"Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect."
Vince Lombardi
"Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."
Winston S. Churchill
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
Nelson Mandela
"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
John Wooden
"You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it."
Lionel Messi
"A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning."
Billie Jean King
"In basketball you need to be quick, but you should not hurry."
John Wooden
"Great players are usually great workers."
Michael Jordan
"What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle, and giving 110% all the time."
Don Zimmer
"Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing."
Vince Lombardi
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