Basketball Quotes

Accountability is essential to personal growth, as well as team growth. How can you improve if you're never wrong? If you don't admit a mistake and take responsibility for it, you're bound to make the same one again.

Attitude lies somewhere between emotion and logic. It's that curious mix of optimism and determination that enables you to maintain a positive outlook and to continue plodding in the face of the most adverse circumstances.

You can't always be the most talented person in the room. But you can be the most competitive

Attitude is a choice. Think positive thoughts daily. Believe in yourself.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.

Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you're never wrong?

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

Attitude is a choice. What you think you can do, whether positive or negative, confident or scared, will most likely happen.

Doesn't matter where you come from, what you have or don't have... All you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling

Mental Toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it's not the best thing for you.

You can't measure success if you have never failed. My father has taught me that if you really do want to reach your goals, you can't spend any time worrying about whether you're going to win or lose. Focus only on getting better.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

Success is not an accident, success is actually a choice.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We.

Everything happens for a reason, and everything has a story, and if you take time to realise what your dream is and what you really want in life... whether it's sports, whether it's in other fields, you have to realise that there's always work to do.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

The only thing even in this world is the number of hours in a day. The difference in winning or losing is what you do with those hours.

The night before my amputation, my former basketball coach brought me a magazine with an article on an amputee who ran in the New York Marathon. It was then I decided to meet this new challenge head on and not only overcome my disability, but conquer it in such a way that I could never look back and say it disabled me.

Basketball isn't a game; It's an art form. You master the fundamentals so you can forget 'em, so you can improvise and just concentrate on what really matters: getting buckets.

Basketball isn't just a sport. It is an art, one that must be mastered to succeed.

The Big Cactus... because if you come too close, you're gonna get stuck.