More Basketball Sayings And Quotes For You To Enjoy

by allinspiration.com

“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.”
– Michael Jordan

“Never say never. Limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.”
– Michael Jordan

“Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, and others make it happen.”
– Michael Jordan

“Every time I feel tired while I’m exercising and training, I close my eyes to see the picture, to see that list with my name. This usually motivates me to work again.”
– Michael Jordan

“Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.”
– Michael Jordan

“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

“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.”
– Michael Jordan

“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

“My body could stand the crutches, but my mind couldn’t stand the sideline.”
– Michael Jordan

“The good part being a famous is being able to help people. The hard part is every day you have to be in a good mood, because that is always what people expect. You learn to get good at it.”
– Michael Jordan

“To learn to succeed, you must first learn to fail.”
– Michael Jordan

“Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work.”
– Michael Jordan

“I’ve never lost a game, I just ran out of time.”
– Michael Jordan

“I’ve always believed if you put the work in the results will come.”
– Michael Jordan

“Even when I’m old and gray, I won’t be able to play it, but I’ll still love the game.”
– Michael Jordan

“I would tell players to relax and never think about what’s at stake. Just think about the basketball game. If you start to think about who is going to win the championship, you’ve lost your focus.”
– Michael Jordan

“I have a rule on my team: When we talk to one another, we look each other right in the eye, because I think it’s tough to lie to somebody. You give respect to somebody.”
– Mike Krzyzewski

“Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable.”
– Mike Krzyzewski

“I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if I missed, there was a lane violation, and I was given another one.”
– Mike Krzyzewski

“A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That’s how I want you to play.”
– Mike Krzyzewski

“Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school.”
– Mike Krzyzewski

“We’re shooting 100 percent – 60 percent from the field and 40 percent from the free-throw line.”
– Norm Stewart

“Great defense consists of 3 R’s: read, react, and rotate.”
– P. Carr

“You can run a lot of plays when your X is twice as big as the other guys’ O. It makes your X’s and O’s pretty good.”
– Paul Westphal

“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.”
– Phil Jackson

“If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball.”
– Phil Jackson

“Not only is there more to life than basketball, there’s more to basketball than basketball.”
– Phil Jackson

“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

“Those who work the hardest are the last to surrender.”
– Rick Pitino

“Pressure can burst a pipe or pressure can make a diamond.”
– Robert Horry

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