Basketball Quotes

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

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• Keller, Helen “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
  
  
• Kennedy, John F. "Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction."
  
  
• Kettering, Charles "You can't have a better tomorrow if you're thinking about yesterday."
  
  
• King, Dr. Martin Luther, Jr. "If you can't fly, run. If you can't run, walk. If you can,t walk, crawl. But, by all means, keep moving."
  
  
• King, Dr. Martin Luther, Jr.  "Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the staircase."
  
  
• "The "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
  
  
• Kiser, Henry J. "Problems are only opportunities in work clothes."
  
  
• Knight, Bob "Discipline is doing what has to be done, when it has to be done, as well as it can be done, and doing it that way all the time."
  
  
• Knight, Bob "In basketball, the mental is to the physical as four is to one."
  
  
• Knight, Bob "I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation."
  
  
• Knight, Bob "The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom."
  
  
• Korda, Michael "If your position is everywhere, your momentum is zero."
  
  
• Kroc, Ray "Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get."
  
  
• Krzyzewski, Mike"A common mistake among those who work in sport is spending a disproportional amount of time on"x's and o's" as compared to time spent learning about people."
  
  
• Krzyzewski, Mike "Every season is a journey. Every Journey is a lifetime."
  
  
• Krzyzewski, Mike "People want to be on a team. They want to be a part of something bigger than themselves. They want to be in a situation where they feel that they are doing something for the greater good."
  
  
  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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