Basketball Winning Quotes:

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

- Michael Jordan

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

When the legs go, the heart and the head follow quickly behind.

- Don Meyer

topic: Basketball, Heart, Coaching, Basketball Winning

Shout praise and whisper criticism.

- Don Meyer

topic: Basketball, Coaching, Criticism, Famous Basketball, Motivational Basketball

There is nothing more important than rebounding... don't just give it lip service.

- Don Meyer

topic: Basketball, Giving, Coaching, Basketball Winning

In all the research you do as a coach, studying other coaches and championship-type situations, you find that all those teams combined talent with great defense. You've got to stop other teams to win.

- Pat Riley

topic: Basketball, Team, Winning, Motivational Basketball, Winning Basketball

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

- Knute Rockne

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

Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.

- Pat Summitt

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

Our goal is not to win. It's to play together and play hard. Then, winning takes care of itself.

- Mike Krzyzewski

topic: Basketball, Winning, Play, Playing Basketball, Basketball Winning

This is a team game and one man doesn't win and one man doesn't lose. In the end, the best team usually wins.

- Wilt Chamberlain

topic: Basketball, Team, Winning, Winning Basketball, Basketball Game

We win because we play together as a team.

- John Havlicek

topic: Basketball, Team, Winning, Winning Basketball, Playing Basketball

It's not whether you win or lose - but whether I win or lose.

- Sandy Lyle

topic: Sports, Motivational Sports, Winning, Sporting Events, Inspirational Tennis

Coaching is easy. Winning is the hard part.

- Elgin Baylor

topic: Basketball, Winning, Coaching, Winning Basketball, Basketball Player

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

Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.

- John Wooden

source: "The Wizard's wisdom: 'Woodenisms'", www.espn.com. June 4, 2010.

topic: Basketball, Motivational Sports, Character, Sports Coaching, Sports Leadership

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

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

- John Wooden

topic: Beautiful, Motivation, Grateful, Inspirational Coach, Inspirational Coaching

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

Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost.

- Martina Navratilova

topic: Funny, Sports, Running, Sporting Events, Inspirational Tennis

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

- James Naismith

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

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 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 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

Successful programs consist of people working hard, working together, while never worrying about who gets the credit.

- Don Meyer

topic: Basketball, Hard Work, Successful, Basketball Team, Basketball Winning

Your program must have an overriding purpose which is clearly visible and which teaches lessons beyond winning.

- Don Meyer

topic: Basketball, Winning, Coaching, Winning Basketball, Basketball Team

I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

topic: Life, Motivational, Success, Winning Basketball, Winning Losing

If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.

- Charles Barkley

topic: Basketball, Sports, Running, Winning Basketball, Dunking

I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

- Kobe Bryant

source: "Terrell Owens answers your questions". "Dateline" with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com.

topic: Basketball, Attitude, Winning, Winning Basketball, Basketball And Life

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

- LeBron James

topic: Basketball, Strong, Inspiration, Winning Basketball, Basketball Success

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

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

- Al McGuire

topic: Leadership, Basketball, Sports, Winning Basketball, Encouraging Basketball

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

- Stevie Wonder

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Growth Mindset, Integrity And Character

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

- Michael Jordan

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

Systems win! Believe in your system, and then sell it to your players.

- Billy Donovan

topic: Basketball, Believe, Winning, Basketball Coaching, Winning Basketball

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

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

topic: Basketball, Sports, Winning, Winning Basketball, You Can Win

The NBA is all about winning, but at this level (college basketball) winning doesn't make you happy. You can win, and play lousy, and in my program, feel lousy. To me it's about: How good can we be.

- Geno Auriemma

topic: Basketball, Athlete, Winning, College Basketball, Basketball Winning