Basketball Training Quotes:

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

Do your best when no one is looking.

- Bob Cousy

topic: Famous Basketball, Basketball Success, Basketball Training, Best Basketball, Nba Player

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

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

- Larry Bird

topic: Motivational, Basketball, Athlete, Sports Coach, Give It Your All

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

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

All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.

- Magic Johnson

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

topic: Relationship, Basketball, Hope, Little Help, Little Kid

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

- Michael Jordan

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

You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.

- Bobby Knight

topic: Basketball, Sports, Athlete, Famous Basketball, Don't Play Games

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

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

- Pat Riley

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball, Inspirational Coach, Striving For Perfection

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

- John Wooden

source: "This Speech Was Given Before The #4Women4AllWomen Run" by Powdered Feet, womensrunning.competitor.com. January 25, 2017.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Favorite Sports, Inspiration And Motivation

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

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.

- Larry Bird

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

topic: Inspirational, Success, Basketball, Motivation Goal Setting, Life Goal

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

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

Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.

- Scottie Pippen

topic: Teamwork, Player, Challenges, Motivational Basketball, Encouraging Basketball

You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

topic: Basketball, Motivational Sports, Emotional, Famous Basketball, Playing Basketball

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

A lot of late nights in the gym, a lot of early mornings, especially when your friends are going out, you're going to the gym, those are the sacrifices that you have to make if you want to be an NBA basketball player.

- Jason Kidd

source: FaceBook post by Jason Kidd from Dec 01, 2011

topic: Motivational, Basketball, Morning, Famous Basketball, Basketball Player

There is no such thing as life in-between.

- Pat Riley

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

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

- Michael Jordan

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

Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

topic: Motivational, Basketball, Giving Up, Personal Achievement, Basketball Player

When I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I got things exactly correct. My dream was to become a pro.

- Larry Bird

topic: Inspirational, Dream, Court, Motivational Basketball, Funny Basketball

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.

- Red Auerbach

topic: Motivational, Basketball, Sports, Dunking, Funny Basketball

There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out.

- Pat Riley

topic: Inspirational Athlete, Inspirational Coach, Inspirational Commitment, Basketball Coaching, Great Sports

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

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

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

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

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 play to win, whether during practice or a real game.

- Michael Jordan

topic: Inspirational, Real, Winning, Sports Competition, Famous Basketball

Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals.

- James Naismith

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball, Inspirational Winning, Famous Basketball

I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.

- Charles Barkley

topic: Motivational, Basketball, Games, Good Basketball, Basketball Game

Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.

- Larry Bird

topic: Basketball, Sports, Nba, Loafing, Basketball Player

Everything happens for a reason. I'm used to it, I prepare for it. Like I say, at the end of the day, those in charge of their own destiny are going to do what's right for them and their family.

- Shaquille O'Neal

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball, Referee, Basketball Training

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

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

- Larry Bird

topic: Motivational, Basketball, Sports, Give It All You Got, Inspirational Hard Work

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