Basketball Teamwork Quotes:

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

- Phil Jackson

topic: Teamwork, Surrender, Enough, Inspirational Coach, Basketball Coaching

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Success, Leadership, Individual Performance, Marriage Advice

The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.

- Phil Jackson

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball, Individual Power, Inspirational Team

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

Basketball is a beautiful game when the five players on the court play with one heartbeat.

- Dean Smith

source: Dean Smith, Gerald D. Bell, John Kilgo (2004). “The Carolina Way: Leadership Lessons from a Life in Coaching”, p.142, Penguin

topic: Basketball, Beautiful, Player, Playing Basketball, Basketball Player

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

- Dave DeBusschere

topic: Motivational, Basketball, Team, Motivational Basketball, Basketball Leadership

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

- Helen Keller

source: "Helen and Teacher: The Story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy". Book by Joseph P. Lash, 1980.

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Loyalty, Joint Efforts, Inspirational Team

The secret of winning is working more as a team, less as individuals.

- Knute Rockne

topic: Basketball, Team, Winning, Inspirational Coach, Sports Coaching

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

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

- Michael Jordan

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

There are plenty of teams in every sport that have great players and never win titles. Most of the time, those players aren't willing to sacrifice for the greater good of the team. The funny thing is, in the end, their unwillingness to sacrifice only makes individual goals more difficult to achieve. One thing I believe to the fullest is that 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

topic: Teamwork, Sports, Believe, Individual Goals, Winning Basketball

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

- Pat Riley

topic: Teamwork, Effort, Instinct, Drills, Unselfish

Winning teams at the NBA level, the college level, and the high school level all play team basketball. Championship teams have five players on the same page at all times.

- Hubie Brown

topic: Basketball, Team, School, Winning Team, Championship Team

If you quit ONCE it becomes a habit.Never quit!!!

- Michael Jordan

topic: Inspirational, Business, Nba, Basketball Teamwork, Basketball Winning

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

source: Twitter post from Mar 27, 2013

topic: Teamwork, Sports, Athlete, Drills, Inspirational Athlete

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership, Inspirational Football, Individual Performance

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

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

- Michael Jordan

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

topic: Running, Wall, Giving Up, Favorite Sports, Inspirational Football

I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.

- Michael Jordan

topic: Motivational, Inspiring, Success, Sports Competition, Secret Of My Success

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

- Andrew Carnegie

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Teamwork, Individual Power, Individual Work

Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

- Michael Jordan

topic: Motivational, Sports, Figures, Favorite Sports, Inspirational Football

Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.

- Bill Russell

source: Bill Russell, David Falkner (2001). “Russell Rules: 11 Lessons on Leadership from the Twentieth Century's Greatest Winner”, p.36, Penguin

topic: Basketball, Team, Important, Unselfishness, Basketball Teamwork

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

- Joe Paterno

topic: Teamwork, Confidence, Reality, Individual Performance, Individual Work

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

- John Wooden

topic: Life, Basketball, Motivational Sports, Good Sportsmanship, Motivational Basketball

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

- Babe Ruth

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Leadership, Basketball, Teamwork, Baseball Games, Softball Player

Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.

- Pat Riley

source: Pat Riley (1993). “Winner Within Success”, Putnam Publishing Group

topic: Teamwork, Careers, Way, Inspirational Coach, Sports Coach

To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.

- Mike Krzyzewski

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Basketball, Great Coach, Basketball Teamwork

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

My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.

- Michael Jordan

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Strength, Inspirational Attitude, My Attitude

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

- Allan Fromme

topic: Teamwork, People, Achieve, Working With Others, Inspirational Team

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them

- Michael Jordan

topic: Basketball, Trying, Achieve, Hurdling Obstacles, Inspirational Adversity

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

- Jack Ramsay

topic: Basketball, Team, Player, Playing Together, Playing Basketball

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

Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back -- For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.

- Rudyard Kipling

topic: Leadership, Law, Sky, Jungle Book, Creepers

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

- Bud Wilkinson

source: Bud Wilkinson (1993). “Football: Winning Offense”, p.13, Sports Illustrated

topic: Teamwork, Player, Goal, Inspirational Football, Sports Team

Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.

- Casey Stengel

topic: Motivational, Teamwork, Baseball, Sports Team, Motivational Baseball

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

- Michael Jordan

topic: Basketball, Inspiration, Recovery, Sports Competition, True Champion

Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.

- Michael Jordan

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

Teamwork doesn't come naturally. It must be taught.

- Pat Summitt

topic: Basketball, Teamwork, Coaching, Basketball Teamwork

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

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

No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.

- Halford Luccock

topic: Life, Teamwork, Science, Inspirational Team, Inspirational Team Building

What is love? Love is playing every game as if it's your last!

- Michael Jordan

topic: Inspirational, Basketball, Love Is, Playing Sports, Basketball Teamwork