Basketball Discipline Quotes

#1. Like everything in life, it is not what happens to you but how you respond to it that counts.

Steve Backley

#2. Too often our visions of the future
are dull and impotent
like a hammer beating the water.

Harley King

#3. When an archer misses the mark he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bull's-eye is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim, improve yourself.

John C. Maxwell

#4. Discipline is the habit of taking consistent action until one can perform with unconscious competence. Discipline weighs ounces but regret weighs tons.

Jhoon Goo Rhee

#5. The strength of my Princeton teams has always been attitude, intelligence and discipline.

Pete Carril

#6. How competitive can you be without losing your discipline?

Doc Rivers

#7. It is one of the strange ironies of this strange life that those who work the hardest, who subject themselves to the strictest discipline, who give up certain pleasurable things in order to achieve a goal, are the happiest.

Brutus Hamilton

#8. If you are not willing to work hard and establish discipline in your life, then all your dreams are merely pipe dreams.

Rick Pitino

#9. Success is a matter of understanding and religiously practicing specific, simple habits that always lead to success.

Robert Ringer

#10. Because I grew up with a drill sergeant in my life, I respect order and it really gave me the discipline to be a leader and not a follower. It also helped me stay out of trouble.

Shaquille O'Neal

#11. There's never been A day in the last four years I've been proud to be his Vice President. Not a single day.

Joe Biden

#12. One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.

Simone Weil

#13. For order and a society to exist - and a basketball team is a society within itself - it needs discipline.

Joe B. Hall

#14. The solution is to gradually become free of societal rewards and learn how to substitute for them rewards that are under one's own powers.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#15. Discipline and demand without being demeaning.

Don Meyer

#16. Leaders must learn to discipline their disappointments. It's not what happens to us, it is what we choose to do about what happens that makes the difference in how our lives turn out.

Jim Rohn

#17. The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.

Pat Summitt

#18. Our life is short and time is limited. Use them wisely!

SuccessCoach Nilesh

#19. Discipline is the only sure way I know to convince people to believe in themselves

Pat Summitt

#20. You are the only woman in the world. The sun rises and falls with you.

Ava Gray

#21. I tried to teach them [his sons] that about the importance of self-discipline, and that the culture of yes is built on a foundation of no.

Bill Walton

#22. Even the greatest players accept coaching and value the need for discipline and the order that it brings to the team

Jack Ramsay

#23. Discipline is the whole key to being successful. We all get 24 hours each day. That's the only fair thing; it's the only thing that's equal. What we do with those 24 hours is up to us.

Sam Huff

#24. Discipline is the greatest form of love you can show someone. Great players crave discipline

Tom Izzo

#25. The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.

William Arthur Ward