Confidence Basketball Quotes

#1. I'm probably more interested in sentences than anything else in life.

Tom Robbins

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

Dean Smith

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

John Starks

#4. There is no such thing as a bad book, I just like some books more than others ...

Chris Geiger

#5. 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

#6. 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

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

Mike Krzyzewski

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. I am confident that life once thrived on Mars and may well still exist there today.

Craig Venter

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

Kwame Alexander

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

Isiah Thomas

#13. 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

#14. 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

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

Stephen Curry

#16. 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

#17. In the early '90s, we discovered mutations that could double the normal life span of worms.

Cynthia Kenyon

#18. You have the right to chose your destiny, otherwise you will be left to live someone else's idea of what your life should be.

Steven Redhead

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

Vince Lombardi

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

Mike Krzyzewski

#21. Hollywood is a dirty temptress that has stolen my wallet way too many times. It's a great town, but at the same time, it's a hustle.

Alexandra Shipp

#22. The path to Heaven is narrow, rough and full of wearisome and trying ascents, nor can it be trodden without great toil; and therefore wrong is their way, gross their error, and assured their ruin who, after the testimony of so many thousands of saints, will not learn where to settle their footing.

Robert Southwell

#23. 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.

#24. Note: 'family' does NOT only mean a biological unit composed of people who share genetic markers or legal bonds, headed by a heterosexual-mated pair. Family is much, much more than that.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#25. A lot of us spend our lives assuming we are going to get around to those things we want to do.

Sean Patrick Maloney

#26. But there were worse things than being left.

Cassandra Clare

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

John Milton

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

Jack Ramsay

#29. Are you a slave to your self-centered nature or does your divine nature guide your life? Do you kow that every moment of your life you're creating through thought? You create your own inner condition; you're helping create the conditions around you.

Peace Pilgrim