Over 250 Inspirational Basketball Quotes

by allinspiration.com

“I’ve tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we’ll win again, but I’ve also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport.”
– Mike Krzyzewski

“That’s what I do now: I lead and I teach. If we win basketball games from doing that, then that’s great, but I lead and teach. Those are the two things I concentrate on.”
– Mike Krzyzewski

“With me and basketball, it became part of me.”
– Mike Krzyzewski

“I’m not going to lie. I check the iTunes charts. It’s all about the iTunes charts. I only go on the Internet for the iTunes charts and basketball blogs.”
– Nate Ruess

“I grew up in a small town in Illinois, and my dad was a basketball coach. Thanks to him, I have excellent fundamentals in both basketball and baseball.”
– Nick Offerman

“The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports – football, basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo, individual sports are not supported.”
– Novak Djokovic

“For ‘Iron Man’ I had to improv with Robert Downey Jr., which is like going up against LeBron in basketball. At one point he stopped and said, ‘Can we give a round of applause to Olivia, because she’s rocking it right now.’”
– Olivia Munn

“Basketball is basketball.”
– Oscar Robertson

“I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen.”
– Oscar Robertson

“If you’re a basketball player, you’ve got to shoot.”
– Oscar Robertson

“You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os.”
– Oscar Robertson

“Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.”
– Pat Riley

“It’s what you get from games you lose that is extremely important.”
– Pat Riley

“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

“In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.”
– Pat Summerall

“It wasn’t until late high school and early college that I gained enough size and skill to make me welcome on intramural basketball teams.”
– Paul D. Boyer

“I live in L.A., so I go to basketball games. But I love baseball.”
– Penny Marshall

“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 a lot more to basketball than basketball.”
– Phil Jackson

“My goals have gone from being an all-star to just being able to play basketball. I always took for granted that I could play. Now I know what a gift it is.”
– Rebecca Lobo

“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

“Well, I work out three to four times a week, in a gym, which – thank God – is right in my building here in New York City. It’s in the Reebok building, and it’s got every kind of weightlifting equipment you can imagine, spread out over six floors, plus basketball courts and everything else. And because it’s right in the building, there’s no excuse.”
– Regis Philbin

“One thing my dad always told me, was he would make sure I always had what he didn’t have. He couldn’t play basketball because he didn’t have tennis shoes – so I had five pairs of tennis shoes.”
– Robert Griffin III

“I always wanted to be a basketball player.”
– Ronnie James Dio

“A friend of mine has a house with a basketball court and a pool. The guys go over and play basketball; I lie by the pool and nap in the sun. That defines me. That’s consistent with who I am. I don’t pretend to play basketball because I wanna feel like one of the guys. I wanna lie in the sun and relax.”
– Ryan Seacrest

“I enjoy the last quarter of all basketball games.”
– Sarah Silverman

“When I was a kid, I was always an athlete. I played a lot of sports. I played football, basketball, baseball and soccer.”
– Scott Caan

“Sometimes a player’s greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.”
– Scottie Pippen

“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

“I?m tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.” 
– Shaquille O’Neal

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