- If there's a time for basketball quotes, it's now.
- These quotes about basketball are perfect for this time of year. Are you watching all the basketball on tv right now?
- When I’d get tired and want to stop, I’d wonder what my next opponent was doing. I’d wonder if he was still working out. Then I tried to visualize him. When I could see him still working, I’d start pushing myself. When I could see him in the shower, I’d push myself harder. – Dan Gable
- Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. –
General George Patton - It’s not whether you get knocked down. It’s whether you get up again. – Vince Lombardi
- The biggest thing that I felt basketball could do for me was help me get a good education. – Julius Erving
- It is more than willingness to change that sets the true leaders apart. Seeking out change and wringing every bit of potential out of it that takes you to the next horizon. – Ty Boyd
- The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will. – Vince Lombardi
- Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently. – Henry Ford. What do you think of this as one of the best of the quotes about basketball?
- Yes, it’s true: We can’t control the wind or the rain or the other vagaries of weather. But we can tack our sails such that we can steer the course we desire. – Unknown
- Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. – Marliyn vos Savant
- Positive Thinking
- The old lessons (work, self-discipline, sacrifice, teamwork, fighting to achieve) aren’t being taught by many people other than football coaches these days. A football coach has a captive audience and can teach these lessons because the communication lines between himself and his players are more wide open than between kids and parents. We better teach these lessons or else the country’s future population will be made up of a majority of crooks, drug addicts, or people on relief. – Paul “Bear” Bryant
- Although the tongue weighs very little, few people are able to hold it. – Unknown
- Most men stop when they begin to tire. Good men go until they think they are going to collapse. But the very best know the mind tires before the body, and push themselves further and further, beyond all limits. Only when their limits are shattered can the attainable be reached. – Mark Mysnyk
- Coaching
- Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. – John Wooden
- It’s not whether you get knocked down. It’s whether you get up again. – Vince Lombardi
- There are three kinds of men: The ones that learn by reading, the few who learn by observation and the rest of them who have to pee on the electric fence for themselves. – Will Rogers
- I’ve found that when you go the extra mile, it’s never crowded. – Unknown
- Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. – Thomas A. Edison
- Rome wasn’t built in a day. – Unknown
- In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail. – Cassius
- Always have a plan and believe in it. I tell my coaches not to compromise. Nothing good happens by accident. There must be a plan for everything and the plan will prevent you from overlooking little things. By having that plan, you’ll be secure and self-doubts will never become a factor. – Chuck Knox. Do you think this is one of the best quotes about basketball?
- I’ve missed more than 9,000 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 it. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeeded. – Michael Jordan
- You have to learn what makes this or that Sammy run. For
one it’s a pat on the back, for another it’s eating him out, for still another it’s a fatherly talk, or something else. You’re a fool if you think as I did as a young coach, that you can treat them all alike. – Paul “Bear” Bryant - There’s a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success. – Paul “Bear” Bryant
- Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. – Will Rogers
- There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. – Gen. Colin L. Powell
- She didn’t know it couldn’t be done, so she went ahead and did it. – Mary’s Almanac
- Greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention. – Richard Moss, M.D.
- You can’t fly a kite unless you go against the wind and have a weight to keep it from turning a somersault. The same with man. No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and is prepared to assume responsibilities. – William J.H. Boetcker
- We make a living by what we get. But we make a life by what we give. – Winston Churchill
- In great attempts it is glorious even to fail. – Vince Lombardi
- Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out. – John Wooden
- The most important statistic for a wrestling coach isn’t how many dual meets the team won nor the number of state champs they produced. It’s the number of wrestlers they had in the room on the last day of practice. – Greg DeMarco
- Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley. – James Rogers. Have you heard this before as one of the quotes about basketball?
- One of my goals is to have NO wrestler go undefeated. – Jeff Buxton, Blair Academy
- A man of character does not expect to be liked by everyone, nor does he worry about being liked by anyone. – William A. Welker
- The wise does at once what the fool does at last. – Gracian Baltasar
- A positive mind has extra solving power. – Alexander Lockhart
- Personnel determines the potential of the team. Vision determines the direction of the team. Work ethic determines the preparation of the team. Leadership determines the success of the team. – John C. Maxwell
- The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer. – George Santayana
- It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test. – Elbert Hubbard
- Children have more need of models than critics. – Carolyn Coats
- Our attitude is the primary force that will determine whether we succeed or fail. – John C. Maxwell
- How a man plays the game shows something of his character; how he loses shows all of it. – Frosty Westering
- The harder you work, the harder it is to lose. – Unknown
- The things which hurt, instruct. – Ben Franklin
- Nobody who ever gave their best effort regretted it. – George Halas
- If I went back to college again, I’d concentrate on learning to write and to speak before an audience. Nothing is more important than the ability to communicate effectively. – Gerald R. Ford
- What do you think about these quotes about basketball? let me know your favorites in the comments!