Basketball Quotes

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

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• Naismith, James "I seek to leave the world a litter better place than I found it."

• Nicklaus, Jack "It's great to win, but it's also great fun just to be in the thick of any truly well-and hard-fought contest against opponents you respect, whatever the outcome."

• Nightingale, Earl "Successful people form the habit of doing what failures don't like to do. They like the results they get by doing what they don't necessarily enjoy."
  
  
• Nightingale, Florence "I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse."
  
  
• Nightingale, Earl "It’s our attitude in life that determines life’s attitude toward us."
  
  
• Noble, Charles C. "You must have long-term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-term failures."
  
  
• Norman, Greg "Setting goals for your game is an art. The trick is in setting them at the right level -- neither too low nor too high. A good goal should be lofty enough to inspire hard work, yet realistic enough to provide solid hope of attainment."
  
  
• Norris, Kathleen "Before you begin a thing remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. You can only see one thing clearly, and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin. "
  
  
• Nyad, Diana "I am willing to put myself through anything; temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level. I am interested in the unknown, and the only path to the unknown is through breaking barriers, an often painful process."
  
  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.

Other Basketball Quotes Resources

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