Basketball Is My Life Quotes:

Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.

- Michael Jordan

topic: Motivational, Positive, Basketball, When Things Go Wrong, Negative And Positive

I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me . . . Failure always made me try harder next time.

- Michael Jordan

topic: Basketball, People, Trying, Sports Competition, Motivational Basketball

The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.

- Michael Jordan

topic: Motivational, Basketball, Loyalty, Loyal And Faithful, Basketball And Life

Not only is there more to life than basketball, there's a lot more to basketball than basketball.

- Phil Jackson

topic: Basketball, Hockey, More To Life, Motivational Basketball, Good Basketball

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

- Michael Jordan

topic: Basketball, Sports, Fun, Sports Competition, Enjoy Your Life

If you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.

- Michael Jordan

source: Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

topic: Teamwork, Winning, Thinking, Individual Goals, Individual Performance

Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That's truly about the game, and in some ways that's about life too.

- Michael Jordan

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Nba, Like Mike, Basketball Is Life

Basketball is a team game. But that doesn't mean all five players should have the same amount of shots.

- Dean Smith

topic: Basketball, Team, Mean, Basketball Leadership, Winning Basketball

The only way you're going to get through life, happily, is being yourself.

- Nikki Blonsky

source: "Nikki Blonsky Talks to Seventeen About Huge!". Interview with Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. July 1, 2010.

topic: Basketball, Being Yourself, Diving, Sports Leadership, Vigorous

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

- Walter Bagehot

source: Walter Bagehot (1858). “Estimates of Some Englishmen and Scotchmen”, p.272

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Life Is Not Worth Living, Just Live Your Life

You can't be afraid to fail. It's the only way you succeed - you're not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

- LeBron James

topic: Basketball, Inspiration, Way, Winning Basketball, Afraid To Fail

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

- Michael Jordan

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness, Improve Self Esteem, Just Believe In Yourself

You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.

- Jerry West

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership, Famous Basketball, Motivational Basketball

In basketball - as in life - true joy comes from being fully present in each and every moment, not just when things are going your way.

- Phil Jackson

topic: Basketball, Joy, True Life, True Joy, Basketball And Life

My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.

- Michael Jordan

topic: Basketball, Sports, Hero, Famous Basketball, Basketball And Life

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

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Basketball, Best Coaches, Basketball Leadership

I've missed more than 9000 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 succeed.

- Michael Jordan

source: "Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Favorite Sports, Best Success

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

- Michael Jordan

source: "I Can't Accept Not Trying : Michael Jordan on the Pursuit of Excellence". Book by Michael Jordan (p. 129), 1994.

topic: Motivational, Change, Basketball, Favorite Sports, Young Entrepreneurs

I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.

- Michael Jordan

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Basketball, Sports Mental Toughness, Basketball Player

Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise

- Michael Jordan

topic: Basketball, Down And, Fundamentals, Basketball And Life, Basketball Is Life

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

- Michael Jordan

topic: Inspirational, Life, Basketball, Motivational Work, Famous Basketball

I don't need too much. Glamour and all that stuff don't excite me. I am just glad I have the game of basketball in my life.

- LeBron James

source: The InsideHoops Interview, www.insidehoops.com. June 14, 2003.

topic: Motivational, Basketball, Nba, Basketball And Life, Basketball Is Life

You can practice shooting eight hours a day, but if your technique is wrong, then all you become is very good at shooting the wrong way. Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise.

- Michael Jordan

source: Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

topic: Basketball, Practice, Eight, Motivational Basketball, Chairman

There is no such thing as life in-between.

- Pat Riley

topic: Motivational, Sports, Inspirational Athlete, Inspirational Coaching, Inspirational Commitment

I always mean what I say, but I don't always say what I'm thinking.

- Dean Smith

topic: Basketball, Mean, Thinking, Basketball Leadership, Basketball And Life

In the next 15 or 20 years, I hope I'll be the richest man in the world. That's one of my goals. I want to be a billionaire. I want to get to a position where generation on generation don't have to worry about nothing. I don't want family members from my kids to my son's kids to never have to worry. And I can't do that now just playing basketball.

- LeBron James

topic: Basketball, Kids, Son, Playing Basketball, Basketball Is My Life

Heart is what separates the good from the great.

- Michael Jordan

topic: Heart, Gymnast, Basketball Is Life, Basketball Is My Life

There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don't put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.

- LeBron James

topic: Motivational, Basketball, Games, Basketball Is My Life, Nba Player

I take my sport damned seriously. Basketball is my life. There are other people who go into important games as if they were any other game. I'm a brooder and I spend a lot of time thinking about my opponent, about the things he can do and about what I have to do to win. I don't think I'll ever be able to change that.

- Dirk Nowitzki

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Basketball, Sports, Winning, Basketball Is My Life

People that don't know me think that basketball is my life 24/7. Trust me, there is much more to my life. My number one priority in my life is my family.

- Dick Vitale

topic: Basketball, Thinking, Numbers, Basketball Is My Life