Basketball Quotes
- “I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six 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’ve been successful.” – Michael Jordan
- “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
- “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky
- “I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” – Michael Jordan
- “Basketball is like photography, if you don’t focus, all you have is the negative.” – Dan Frisby
- “You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.” – Michael Jordan
- “The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.” – Pele
- “It’s not about the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.” – Magic Johnson
- “Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.” – Pele
- “I’ve never lost a game. I just ran out of time.” – Michael Jordan
- “The only important statistic is the final score.” – Bill Russell
- “If you are afraid of failure, you don’t deserve to be successful.” – Charles Barkley
- “Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best.” – Tim Duncan
- “I play to win, whether during practice or a real game.” – Michael Jordan
- “If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything.” – John Wooden
- “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi
- “You can’t get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.” – Jerry West
- “Basketball doesn’t build character, it reveals it.” – Unknown
- “The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life—mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.” – Julius Erving
- “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
