Basketball Motivation Quotes

#1. One thing you gotta know about Roy. The way I always saw myself, is I'm just like you. In the ring, I have a gift ... That gift ain't on the basketball court. That gift ain't at home. You understand me? That gift is in the ring.

Roy Jones Jr.

#2. Love is when someone puts you on a pedestal and yet when you fall, they're there to catch you anyway.' - Tara Daniels

Jill Shalvis

#3. Maybe my pain was my motivation.

LeBron James

#4. Heart in champions has to do with the depth of our motivation and how well your mind and body react to pressure - that is, being able to do what you do best under maximum pain and stress.

Bill Russell

#5. I named him Poodle, beginning a long tradition of functional pet naming.

John Elder Robison

#6. Spend less than you make; always be saving something. Put it into a tax-deferred account. Over time, it will begin to amount to something. This is such a no-brainer.

Charlie Munger

#7. True motivation is not getting people to play to their potential. It's getting people to play beyond their potential

Rick Pitino

#8. I'd rather have preparation than motivation. Everyone likes to play, but no one likes to practice.

Bum Phillips

#9. Noah had been living when he was murdered. Gansey had been marking time.

Maggie Stiefvater

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

Stephen Curry

#11. If you got the game, you got the game. That's why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman.

Shaquille O'Neal

#12. Feminism is liberalism, and look at what it's doing, look at what it's promoting, look at what it's condoning. All the while, we have to live in this lie that there's some sort of Republican War on Women. We don't do this to women! We don't objectify women like this.

Rush Limbaugh

#13. The motivation for me is just the game itself, just playing the game the right way and trying to win, compete every time I step out there on the floor. That's motivation enough for me to go out there and play well.

Kobe Bryant

#14. When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game.

Michael Jordan

#15. You kin tame arything, son, excusin' the human tongue.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#16. There are still some people who think that we have Stalin to thank for all our progress, who quake before Stalin's dirty under-draws, who stand at attention and salute them.

Nikita Khrushchev

#17. Suddenly she bent down and kissed his fingers and went quickly away. But he sat for a long time in the gathering clouds trembling with happiness and trying to penetrate into the meaning of these things.

Thorton Wilder

#18. I sought excitement and, taking chances, I was all ready to fail in order to achieve something large.

Raymond Loewy

#19. He (the Shaman) is a self-reliant explorer of the endless mansions of a magnificent hidden universe.

Michael Harner

#20. A successful person realizes his personal responsibility for self-motivation. He starts with himself because he possesses the key to his own ignition switch.

Kemmons Wilson