Everything negative pressure, challenges are all an opportunity for me to rise. Basketball quotes collection

Remember that basketball is a game of habits. If you make the other guy deviate from his habits, you’ve got him. — Bill Russell.

What is basketball? Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball through the defender’s hoop while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own hoop.

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1. The key is not the ‘will to win’ everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important. — Bob Knight

2. Shooting percentage is just as much about decision making as it is about technique. — Jeff Van Gundy

3. Young men need more models, not critics. — John Wooden

4. What you are as a person is far more important that what you are as a basketball player. — John Wooden

5. Winners are not people who do not fail, but people who never quit. ― Cherry Nguyen

6. I don’t know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody somewhere  was practicing more than me. — Larry Bird

7. If all I’m remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I’ve done a bad job with the rest of my life. — Isiah Thomas

8. I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win. — Michael Jordan

9. Teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. — Mike Krzyzewski

10. When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort it is ready to climb. — Pat Riley

11. 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

12. All the successful teams I’ve ever seen have three characteristics: They play unselfish, they play together, and they play hard. — Larry Brown

13. Everyone is born with a certain potential. You may never achieve your full potential, but how close you come depends on how much you want to pay the price. — Red Auerbach

14. 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

15. Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates. — Magic Johnson

16. Everything negative pressure, challenges are all an opportunity for me to rise. — Kobe Bryant

17. If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful! — Charles Barkley

18. I’ve got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end. — Larry Bird

19. We believe in people executing their role and caring about the team more than anything individually. — Gregg Popovich

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20. A key basketball skill is imagery. The best players “see” situations before they happen so they can be prepared. — Dr. Jack Ramsay

21. The one thing I learned about myself going back and watching tapes of all the losses that we’ve had is that I’m physically capable of doing this and dominating the game, but the mental part was not there. I don’t know if it comes with age, but I had to learn to be mentally tough. — Lisa Leslie

22. Be led by your dreams not by your problems. — Roy Williams

23. You don’t play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball. — Bobby Knight

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

25. If you’re not talking, you’re not playing defense. — Doc Rivers

26. The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. — Ann Landers

27. Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best. — Tim Duncan

28. My goal is to win the next game one possession at a time. That’s it. I don’t have any other goals. — Brad Stevens

29. I have a plan of action, but the game is a game of adjustments. —  Mike Krzyzewski

30. There is a direct correlation between the number of ball reversals and defensive breakdowns. — Kevin Eastman 

31. If it turns out that my best wasn’t good enough, at least I wont look back and say that I was afraid to try. — Michael Jordan

32. Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team. — Red Auerbach

33. Bottom line, you’re either a risk taker, or your not, and if you don’t take risks, you’ll never win big. — Geno Auriemma

34. If you’re going to have to beg them to play, it’s not going to work. — Chuck Daly

35. I think, team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed. — Lebron James

36. Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise. — Michael Jordan

37. When I walked into the gym, I fell in love with the game. I didn’t fall in love with it just because it was me playing. I fell in love with it because I’ve got guys like this, like these guys every single day that push me to be the best that I can be. — Kevin Durant

38. I can’t relate to lazy people. We don’t speak the same language. I don’t understand you. I don’t want to understand you. — Kobe Bryant

39. There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don’t put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself. — Lebron James

40. In developing teams, I don’t believe in rules. I believe in standards. Rules don’t promote teamwork, standards do. — Mike Krzyzewski 

41. Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you’re never wrong? — Pat Summitt

42. Bad shooters are always open. — Pete Carril

43. Not only is there more to life than basketball, there’s a lot more to basketball than basketball. — Phil Jackson

44. You can’t always be the most talented or gifted person in the room, but you can be the most competitive. — Pat Summit

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45. The greatness of Michael Jordan is his competitive drive. The weakness of Michael Jordan is his competitive drive. — Phil Jackson

46. I can’t stand a ballplayer who plays in fear. Any fellow who has a good shot has got to take it and keep taking it. So he misses – so what? — Red Auerbach

47. Those to whom defense is not important will have the best seat in the game. — Rick Majerus

48. I’m still waiting for perfection. In the meantime, I’ll settle for persistence. — Bo Ryan

49. I know that I’m never as good or bad as any single performance. I’ve never believed my critics or my worshippers, and I’ve always been able to leave the game at the arena. — Charles Barkley