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Playing sports has always been fun. Whether it is indoor or outdoor sports, the games will always entertain you. There are a number of games available, out of which you can choose the one you want to play. And from many sports options available, one such game is Basketball.

Basketball is the game of encouragement, inspiration, and team-work

Basketball is the game that will always entertain you, inspire you, and encourage you to play it more and more. This game will enable you to develop many skills and techniques in yourself. The utmost skill that you develop in yourself through this game is teamwork. Yes, this is one of the most played games which will teach you teamwork.

Basketball – Learn while having Fun

The game you play is full of entertainment and fun. And at the same time, the game you play teaches you a lot. While having a fun time at the basketball court, you unknowingly learn a lot of valuable skills and techniques. By scoring hard while putting the ball in the net with the constant support of your team, you learn the skill of teamwork. By encouraging your teammates and guiding them in the right direction, you learn the skill of leadership and become a good coach.

The game of Basketball holds a very important place in history as well as in the present times. Many well-known Basketball players have enriched us not just with their outstanding performance on the court, but also off-court.  The skills possessed by these players, made them recognize and win the heart of millions by their excellent deliverables on the court and off-court as well. Some of the top-known players of all time such as Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Larry Bird, Hakeem Olajuwon, and many more in the list are still known because of their outstanding performance.

Now as you know Basketball is not just a game, but a complete match of fun with learning, and this will really motivate you always. So let’s explore the really encouraging Basketball Quotes to keep yourself updated.

Basketball Quotes

“Basketball it’s not just a sport, it’s a lifestyle.”

Basketball Quotes

“Push yourself again and again. Don’t give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.” — Larry Bird

“Basketball isn’t just a sport. It is an art, one that must be mastered to succeed.” — Stephen Curry

“Basketball is a lifelong game. You continue to learn from the game day in and day out, and all along the way, you get better.” — Scottie Pippen

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“A player who makes a team great is better than a great player.”

“Self Belief and Confidence will always earn you success.”

“One player’s selfish attitude can poison the locker room and make it hard, if not impossible, to establish teamwork.” — Dean Smith

“You need your best players to play their best when their best is needed.” — Jeff van Gundy

“I really get motivated when I have doubters.” — Michael Jordan

“Your decisions reveal your priorities.” — Jeff Van Gundy

“You can have discipline and be demanding without being demeaning.” — Don Meyer

“Winning is more related to good defense than good offense.”

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“Make the practices like games and the games like practices.” — Don Meyer

“The highest level of achievement is attained by the teams with the best-conditioned players.” — Dr. Jack Ramsay

“Basketball is a beautiful game when the five players on the court play with one heartbeat.” — Dean Smith

“Teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting like one.” — Mike Krzyzewski

Hard work beats talent when talent does not work hard.” — Kevin Durant

“Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against the zone.” — Bob Knight

“Basketball is a game of sacrificing yourself for the next guy, being a team that takes good shots, and taking the right shots” — David Blatt

Basketball Quotes By Michael Jordan

“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” — Michael Jordan

Basketball Quotes By Michael Jordan

“My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.” — Michael Jordan

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“Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.” — Michael Jordan

“I’ve never lost a game, I just ran out of time.” — Michael Jordan

“If it turns out that my best wasn’t good enough, at least I won’t look back and say I was afraid to try.” — Michael Jordan

“Heart is what separates the good from the great.” — Michael Jordan

“Once you leave the ground, you fly. Some people fly longer than others.” — Michael Jordan

“The minute you get away from fundamentals–whether it’s proper technique, work ethic or mental preparation–the bottom can fall out of your game, your schoolwork, your job, whatever you’re doing.” — Michael Jordan

“I believe greatness is an evolutionary process that changes and evolves era to era.” — Michael Jordan

“Everybody has talent, but ability take hard work.” — Michael Jordan

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“I realized that if I was going to achieve anything in life I had to be aggressive. I had to get out there and go for it.” — Michael Jordan

“I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot… When you think about the consequences you will always think of the negative result.” — Michael Jordan

Basketball Quotes From Boddy Knight

“Good basketball always starts with good defence.” Bob knight

Basketball Quotes From Boddy Knight

“Basketball is a full-court game, so every drill must be done full court.” — Bob Knight

“Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.” — Bob Knight

“The better-conditioned team will probably win in the long run.” — Bob Knight

“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.” — Bob Knight

“Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, and others make it happen.” — Bob Knight

“Everything negative pressure, challenges are all an opportunity for me to rise.” — Bob Knight

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“Basketball is a team game. But that doesn’t mean all five players should take the same amount of shots.” — Bob Knight

“Me shooting 40% at the foul line is just God’s way to say nobody’s perfect.” — Bob Knight

“I haven’t been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either.” — Bob Knight

Motivational Basketball Quotes 

“Don’t leave the court on a miss. Always finish with the result you want.”

Motivational Basketball Quotes 

“There are really only two plays: Romeo and Juliet, and put the darn ball in the basket.” — Abe Lemmons

“I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually, they make the difference between winning and losing.” — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.” — Charles Barkley

“Basketball is like a war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defence to catch up.” — Red Auerbach

“Together, ordinary people can achieve extraordinary results.” — Becka Schoettle

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“Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.” — Shaquille O’Neal

“Don’t be afraid of failure. This is the way to succeed.” — LeBron James

“You can’t win unless you learn how to lose.” — Kareem Abdul Jabbar

“There is a lot of basketball beyond our control, but a player should never let anyone try harder than he does.” — Dean Smith

“Start playing unknown, finish unforgettable.”

“There is no such thing as a perfect basketball player, and I don’t believe there is only one greatest player either.” — Michael Jordan

“In order to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them.” — Bob Knight

“The only important statistic is the final score.” — Bill Russell

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“I think, the team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed.” — LeBron James

“You have to earn your right to win the game with effort and togetherness.” — Brad Stevens

“Simplify the game as much as possible. When you add, you must subtract.” — Don Meyer

“Go hard on every play because it could be the margin that makes the difference in the game.”

“The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play ‘Drop the Handkerchief.” —  James Naismith

“I gave everything I had to basketball. The passion is still there, but the desire to play is not. It was a great ride.” —  Allen Iverson 

“Games typically come down to five plays. You either make those plays or you don’t.”

“I would tell players to relax and never think about what’s at stake. Just think about the basketball game. If you start to think about who is going to win the championship, you’ve lost your focus.” — Michael Jordon

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“Coaching is easy. Winning is the hard part.” — Elgin Baylor

Basketball Quotes By Kobe Bryant

“Once you know what failure feels like, determination chases success.” Kobe Bryant

Basketball Quotes By Kobe Bryant

“Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.” — Kobe Bryant

“The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.” — Kobe Bryant

“Winning takes precedence over all. There’s no grey area. No almosts.” — Kobe Bryant

“I realized that intimidation didn’t really exist if you’re in the right frame of mind.” — Kobe Bryant

“I’m reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.” — Kobe Bryant

“I’m extremely willful to win, and I respond to challenges. It’s not a challenge to me to win the scoring title, because I know I can.” — Kobe Bryant

“My parents are my backbone. Still are. They’re the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.” — Kobe Bryant

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“The beauty in being blessed with talent is rising above doubters to create a beautiful moment.” — Kobe Bryant

“A lot of leaders fail because they don’t have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord.” — Kobe Bryant

“The moment you give up, is the moment you let someone else win.” — Kobe Bryant

“I can’t relate to lazy people. We don’t speak the same language. I don’t understand you. I don’t want to understand you.” — Kobe Bryant

“If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.” — Kobe Bryant

“Pain doesn’t tell you when you ought to stop. Pain is the little voice in your head that tries to hold you back because it knows if you continue you will change.” — Kobe Bryant

“Use your success, wealth and influence to put them in the best position to realize their own dreams and find their true purpose.” — Kobe Bryant

“The most important thing is you must put everybody on notice that you’re here and you are for real.” — Kobe Bryant

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Famous Basketball Quotes 

  • “I really get motivated when I have doubters.”
  • “Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.” — John F. Kennedy
  • “People ask me if I could fly, I said, ‘yeah… for a little while.”
  • “There is no ‘i’ in team but there is in win.” — Michael Jordan
  • “Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise.” — Michael Jordan
  • “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, and others make it happen.”
  • “Everyone has the fire, but the champions know when to ignite the spark.”

“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.”― Phil Jackson

“Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.” ― John Wooden

“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” ― Michael Jordan

“Don’t mistake activity with achievement.”

“Good thing in this business is that you just have to make one big shot and that’s enough to make you forget 9 other shots that you missed.”

“Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard.” ― Kevin Durant

“If you want to be a better player, you have to prepare, prepare, and prepare some more.”

“If all I’m remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I’ve done a bad job with the rest of my life.”

“Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don’t want to play.”― Sherman Alexie

“You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.” ― Michael Jordan

“A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.” ― Larry Bird

“But that’s the thing about basketball: you don’t play games on paper.”

“Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, and others make it happen.” ― Michael Jordan

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“Someone created the box score, and he should be shot.” ― Daryl Morey

“Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.”

“Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.”

“I gave everything I had to basketball. The passion is still there, but the desire to play is not. It was a great ride.” ― Allen Iverson

“Nothing is given. Everything is earned.” ― LeBron James

“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.”

“Sometimes a player’s greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.”

“Everything negative — pressure, challenges — are all an opportunity for me to rise.” — Kobe Bryant

“It doesn’t matter if you fall down, it’s whether you get back up.”

“If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.”

“Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best.”

Best Quotes About Basketball

  • “Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.”
  • “Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.” ― Bill Russell
  • “The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play, Drop the Handkerchief.”
  • “Push yourself again and again. Don’t give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.”
  • “What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.”
  • “Once you are labeled the best you want to stay up there, and you can’t do it by loafing around. If I don’t keep changing, I’m history.” ― Larry Bird
  • “Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.”

Best Quotes On Basketball

  1. “You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.”
  2. “What do you do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.” ― Dean Smith
  3. “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.”
  4. “There is a lot of basketball beyond our control, but a player should never let anyone try harder than he does.” ― Dean Smith
  5. “When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it’s time for me to move away from the game.” ― Michael Jordan
  6. “You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.” ― Lou Holtz

“Playing Sick. That was so hard to do. It had to be a total mental challenge, as well as a physical challenge. — William Blake

“Toughness is a skill and can be practiced and improved like all other skills.”

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“Leadership is diving for a loose ball. It’s about being able to take it as well as dish it out. That’s the only way you are going to get respect from other players.” — Larry Bird

“Winning isn’t like a light bulb. You can’t just switch it on when you need it.”

“When you’re not practicing, someone else is getting better.” — Allen Iverson

“Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.” — Bill Russell

“How good can we expect to be if our best player is not our best teammate.” — Brad Stevens

“But that’s the thing about basketball: you don’t play games on paper.”

“Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision.”

“I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.” — LeBron James

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“You need to be consistent. Every game is important for you and your team.” — Nikola Jokic

“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” — Michael Jordan

“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.” — Phil Jackson

“A leader must inspire or his team will expire.” — Orrin Woodward

“You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.” — Michael Jordan

“Basketball is not only my passion it’s my Life & Attitude.”

“Unity is strength. . . When there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.” — Mattie Stepanek

“One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.” — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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“You must not only have competitiveness but ability, regardless of the circumstance you face, to never quit.” — Abby Wambach

“If you are afraid of failure, you don’t deserve to be successful.”

“Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute” — Bill Russell

“I believe the only muscles you need in basketball are the ones in your brain.” — Nikola Jokic

“Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.” — John Wooden

“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.”

Famous Basketball Quotes 

The Bottom-Line:

Basketball is one of the most popular sports in the world. This famous sport was invented in 1891 by a Canadian American physical educator named James Naismith.

This game teaches us many skills and techniques which we can easily use in our daily lives. Just like the game of life, having the right motivation plays a key role in winning the game of basketball.  So you need to improve yourself and reach the next level every day. And this is possible by having the best inspiring basketball quotes at hand.

I hope you enjoyed knowing interesting facts about the game of basketball. If yes, then do share these exciting Basketball Quotes with your family, friends, and loved ones.

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  1. Jenny

    November 29, 2019 at 5:34 pm

    Nice Tips!! Thank you and keep sharing more.

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