Basketball Quotes

A collection of inspirational basketball quotes listed alphabetically by the person quoted.

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• Edison, Thomas "Many of life's failures are people who do not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

• Edwards, Tyron "People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher and better than themselves."
  
  
• Einstein, Albert "In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity."
  
  
• Einstein, Albert "Don't look to become a person of success, look to become a person of value."
  
  
• Eisenhower, Dwight D. “There are no victories at bargain prices.”
  
  
• Eisenhower, Dwight D. "We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective."
  
  
• Eliot, T.S. "If you want it you must obtain it by great labor."
  
  
• Elliot, Ellen "Leadership is helping yourself and other people achieve goals. The ability to direct your life to get the results you want is leadership."
  
  
• Elway, John "When things go bad, it's easy to point fingers. People who attempt to switch the blame are afraid to fail. We've all been afraid to fail before a game, but it shouldn't stop us from continuing, and from doing what we have to do to get the job done."
  
  
• Emerson, Ralph Waldo "Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonesense."
  
  
• Emerson, Ralph Waldo "Skill to do comes of doing."
  
  
• Elliott, Walter "Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another."
  

We believe that these quotes are all useful resources for basketball coaching and to life in general. As you can see, not all of our basketball quotes came from basketball coaches or basketball players.

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