Basketball Motivational Quotes

#1. Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I've been blessed.

Jim Valvano

#2. Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win.

Bobby Knight

#3. There is no such thing as life in-between.

Pat Riley

#4. Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

Tony Robbins

#5. A guy who gives you less than what he has to give is, one, telling you what he thinks of you, and two, telling you what he thinks of himself.

Pete Carril

#6. The key to coaching is not what you do, but the way you do it. The intangibles, the motivational parts of the game are the most important facets of it.

Rick Pitino

#7. Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We.

Phil Jackson

#8. We try to stress the little things because little things lead to big things.

Steve Alford

#9. I demand more from myself than anybody could ever expect.

Julius Erving

#10. Nobody's more important than the team.

Rejean Houle

#11. My mom always tells me that ... Nobody is going to remember you for the great basketball player you are but they will remember you for the character you have off the court and how many lives you're changed.

Isaiah Austin

#12. We cannot do great deeds unless we're willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness.

Theodore Roosevelt

#13. I don't try to get players emotionally up for a game; it creates too many peaks and valleys ... I strive for even keel; they will get up for the big games.

Denny Crum

#14. One man cannot make a team.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#15. Success is not an accident, success is actually a choice.

Stephen Curry

#16. The best teams have chemistry. They communicate with each other and they sacrifice personal glory for a common goal.

Dave DeBusschere

#17. A person really doesn't become whole, until he becomes a part of something that's bigger than himself.

Jim Valvano

#18. Once Michael gets up there he says, 'Well, maybe I'll just hang up here in the air for a while, just sit back.' Then all of a sudden, he says, 'Well, maybe I'll 360. No I changed my mind. I'll go up on the other side.' He's just incredible.

Magic Johnson

#19. Your limits are somewhere up there, waiting for you to reach beyond infinity.

Arnold Henry