Basketball Quotes

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

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• Jackson, Bo "I'll never worry about not being successful. I'll just take it one day at a time, one season at a time. And play as hard as I can."
  
  
• Jackson, D.N. "The size of a leader is determined by the depth of his convictions, the height of his ambitions, the breadth of his vision, and the reach of his love."
  
  
• Jackson, Phil "Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We."
  
  
• Jackson, Phil "Once you've done the mental work, there comes a point (where) you have to throw yourself into the action and put your heart on the line."
  
  
• Jackson, Phil "It's no accident that things are more likely to go your way when you stop worrying about whether you're going to win or lose, and focus all your full attention on what's happening right at this moment."
  
  
• James, Lebron “I don't need too much. Glamour and all that stuff don't excite me. I am just glad I have the game of basketball in my life.”
  
  
• James, William "The great use of life is to spend it doing something that will outlast it."
  
  
• Jenner, Bruce "I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win. If you don't you won't."
  
  
• Johnson, Earvin "Magic" "I never think that there's something I can't do, whether it's beating my opponent one on one or practicing another hour because something about my game is just not right."
  
  
• Johnson, Earvin "Magic" My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him."
  
  
• Johnson, Jimmy "The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little 'extra'."
  
  
• Johnson, Kyle "You have to play so hard that it hurts!"
  
  
• Johnson, Lyndon "Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose."
  
  
• Jones, Charles "Tremendous" You are the same today that you are going to be in five years from now except for two things: the people with whom you associate and the books you read."
  
  
• Josephson, Michael S. “A good coach improves your game. A great coach improves your life.”
  
  
• Joyner-Kersee, Jackie "Achieving success and personal glory in athletics has less to do with wins and losses than it does with learning how to prepare yourself so that at the end of the day, whether on the track or in the office, you know that there was nothing more you could have done to reach your ultimate goal."
  
  
• Jordan, Michael "I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over again in my life, and that is why...I succeed."
  
  That quote is from a Nike commercial.  I have posted a link to it from YouTube on the site along with another one with Michael discussing how it was his fire and not his flash that was another key to his success: Michael Jordan Videos
  
  

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  Coaching Toolbox Basketball Quotes Volume I: an e-book with 100 basketball quotes for subscribing to our daily e-mail. You can subscribe and immediately receive your e-book by clicking here.
  
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