13. “The strength of the team is each individual member.

They recognized the jersey of Divac's former team from Belgrade that I had been wearing.” “But that's the thing about basketball: you don't play games on paper.” Motivational and inspiring Can we add more to the list?This blog is all about personal development and the ambition to create a lifestyle full of joy, happiness, consciousness and success. Even now, so many years later, I still believe Kentucky will go undefeated in March & win everything.”

I am a life-long Addict. If someone set the bar at ten feet, he’d jump eleven, even if no one had ever done it before. And just like that, he was down.” However, basketball enthusiasts swear that the game is the purpose of life. But I can’t accept not trying.”“Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard.”“No matter how hard you work at your craft and no matter how successful you become, people just have to find something negative to hang on you.
And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. The game was played in Philadelphia and was the last of a tripleheader. Read these famous basketball quotes. What matters most is playing the game the right way and having the courage to grow, as human beings as well as basketball players. That’s what makes them so successful. As he does before all games, he began by shooting set shots close to the basket, gradually moving back until he was shooting long sets from 20 feet out, and nearly all of them dropped into the net with an almost mechanical rhythm of accuracy. You’ve got to have them down before you can even think about playing.”“Sometimes a player’s greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.”“Something just doesn’t pop under your nose; you have to work for it.”“Put great thought to what and how you practice. ‘Henceforth we seek not good fortune, we are ourselves good fortune’.”“The strength of the team is each individual member. Nothing is more lost than a forgotten game.”“They say that nobody is perfect. “You ready to play?" You can read inspirational basketball quotes to take you forward in the game of life.

It's about widening your comfort zone so far that your goal fits comfortably inside.


It was a great ride.”“There’s a great quote by Julius Irving that went, ‘Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don’t feel like doing them. They will motivate you to overcome all the obstacles that prevent you from reaching the next level. By learning from these exceptional players, you can draw a lot of inspiration and motivation for your own life. I’m going to fight until they tell me they don’t want me anymore.”“In order to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them.”“Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work.”“Most of us spend the bulk of our time caught up in thoughts of the past or the future — which can be dangerous if your job is winning basketball games. but not trying is a whole different ball park.”“A lot of late nights in the gym, a lot of early mornings, especially when your friends are going out, you’re going to the gym, those are the sacrifices that you have to make if you want to be an NBA basketball player.”“Everyting negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.”“I love seeing my teammates succeed. Stay in touch. “If basketball was going to enable Bradley to make friends, to prove that a banker's son is as good as the next fellow, to prove that he could do without being the greatest-end-ever at Missouri, to prove that he was not chicken, and to live up to his mother's championship standards, and if he was going to have some moments left over to savor his delight in the game, he obviously needed considerable practice, so he borrowed keys to the gym and set a schedule for himself that he adhereded to for four full years—in the school year, three and a half hours every day after school, nine to five on Saturday, one-thirty to five on Sunday, and, in the summer, about three hours a day.” His obsession with Michael was striking. The rules are always being rewritten. Even though you can quickly acquire the basic skills to play basketball, becoming a truly skilled player takes a lot of exercise and dedication.

That’s the only way your going to get respect from other players”“You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.”“Good players want to be coached… Great players want to be told the truth.”“Recognize and reward players who put the team first, not just the gifted ones.”“I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.”“Good, better, best. “To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. When you do that, the ring takes care of itself.”“Coaches shouldn’t have to push you to work hard, you should push yourself to work hard because you want to be a great player.”“I always wanted to be a basketball player. I wish they’d make up their minds.”“The most important measure of how good a game I played was how much better I’d made my teammates play.”“What is love?

I was addicted from birth, in fact, because I was born in Kentucky.” Basketball started in 1891 and ever since then has continued to increase in popularity. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.”“When you think you have done enough, do a little more, because someone out there is working harder than you.”“I’m playing; I’m here. Love is playing every game as if it’s your last!”“Everything is habit forming, so make sure what you do is what you want to be doing.”“The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not”“I’m here. I’ll figure it out. It’s about being able to take it as well as dish it out. “Kobe was hell-bent on surpassing Jordan as the greatest player in the game. “One player’s selfish attitude can poison the locker room and make it hard, if not impossible, to establish teamwork” – Dean Smith.