Basketball Confidence Quotes

#1. The only thing I pay attention to with free throws is what a guy does in the final four minutes of a game. If you can improve players' self-esteem and confidence, get them to relax, teach visualization and routine, they will shoot as well, or better, with the pressure on.

John Calipari

#2. This is where I break one last taboo: I'm incredibly glad I'm not a granny.

Kiki Dee

#3. Players draw confidence from a poised, alert coach who anticipates changing in game conditions

Jack Ramsay

#4. Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to the possessor.

John Milton

#5. ...you have to ask yourself two questions: Who am I? And how may I become myself?

Paul Beatty

#6. The chair legs behind me scrape against the floor, and Douchecanoe shrinks in his seat as over six hundred pounds of angry hockey players stare down at him. Fitzy is particularly menacing with his two full-sleeve tattoos and the cut over his eyebrow that he got during our last game.

Elle Kennedy

#7. You're not just looking for laughs, but you're trying to do the characters first, and then the laughs come afterwards.

Harry Shearer

#8. Careful, Prince. We wouldn't want to spill any royal blood today. I promise you, as long as you follow my command, you will remain safe. ~ Nadia from Robin Danner's The Princes Bound

Robin Danner

#9. When, you know, when you're playing basketball, you have to have confidence in your moves if they're gonna work.

O'Shea Jackson Jr.

#10. Confidence shared is better than confidence only in yourself.

Mike Krzyzewski

#11. I hold it more important to hold the player's confidence than their affection.

Vince Lombardi

#12. Who is to say that 5 men 10 years ago were right whereas 5 men looking the other direction today are wrong.

Harry A. Blackmun

#13. I'm not trying to say that people don't have the right opinion but I have to live my life. And I'm living it and I'm loving it.

Brandon Jennings

#14. Confidence allows you to progress in something you're attempting to accomplish, whether it's playing basketball or baseball or whether it's trying to succeed in business.

Michael Jordan

#15. Every time I rise up, I have confidence that I'm going to make it.

Stephen Curry

#16. Dennis, please. I don't know what-"
"Shut the fuck up, and stop playing me for an idiot. And secondly, and more importantly, I've unearthed some disturbing information about you which I want to discuss in more detail before I fill you with holes.

Simon Kernick

#17. I'm a firm believer in quiet confidence. By that I mean knowing inwardly that you are good, and not exhibiting a boastful attitude outwardly. If an athlete doesn't believe in himself, no one else will.

Dick Van Arsdale

#18. Basketball is not played simply with X's and O's. It's played with both trust and confidence.

Isiah Thomas

#19. Basketball Rule #5
When
you stop
playing
your game
you've already
lost.

Kwame Alexander

#20. I love deeply and daringly.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#21. It is all about confidence: 90% mental and 10% physical, that is what basketball is. I live by that and it seems to be working.

Michael Redd

#22. Playing in the playoffs is the best basketball in the world, and if you can learn under that pressure, succeed under that pressure, it gives you more confidence the next year.

Tony Parker

#23. You're not 'everyone else', you're different. You get to see the real me," he told her.

Stylo Fantome

#24. With accomplishments comes confidence and with confidence comes belief. It has to be in that order.

Mike Krzyzewski

#25. But basketball was always something I was good at, that I was passionate about. I just didn't have the confidence to play in front of people at the time, at that early age. Now, I feel like I'm ready to play in front of people and play on the big stage.

Lil B

#26. I'm not certain you heard me," O'Neill said.

Charles Duhigg

#27. You can become very serious as a parent. That's got to be fought against.

Tom Hodgkinson

#28. I have seen countless people make a choice to be confident. If you don't naturally feel bold and confident, you can choose an attitude of confidence.

Richard DeVos

#29. I know that once I get a good rhythm and a good feel, no one can stop me.

John Starks

#30. I wasn't as critical during games as I was at practice. Players needed confidence during games more than criticism.

Dean Smith