Motivational Basketball Quotes & Sayings

Reading books is good,
Rereading good books is better. — Lawrence Clark Powell

The fearsome critic and not-very-tough composer Virgil Thomson once drew up a set of rules for hearing an unfamiliar work; the last of those is the question I take with me to every new-music event: "Is this just a good piece of clockwork, or does it actually tell time? — Aaron Copland

Oh, Teddy, darling, thank you, thank you, for restoring my cynicism. I was too young to lose it. — Elaine Dundy

A person really doesn't become whole, until he becomes a part of something that's bigger than himself. — Jim Valvano

You walk until you come to the ocean. You don't walk or run in the ocean - you float and swim. Like this once you come to the Master, seeking stops, blossoming begins. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts. — Tony Robbins

Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I've been blessed. — Jim Valvano

At the foundation of the Christian life, there is a kind of sacred individuality, a sort of holy aloneness that cries out to be left alone with God. This isn't all of the Christian life. It doesn't erase those parts of a Christian's experience that happen in the context of relationships, but this sacred solitude needs to be discovered, respected, and protected.
It is that place where we most irrefutably hear God tell us that he loves us, and we come to know that, no matter what other people may say about us or do to us, God will not abandon us. That holy solitude is the place where we find God's Spirit changing our affections and redirecting our identities. It is, for Jesus-followers, holy ground. — Michael Spencer

Success is not an accident, success is actually a choice. — Stephen Curry

The key to coaching is not what you do, but the way you do it. The intangibles, the motivational parts of the game are the most important facets of it. — Rick Pitino

this is chesters mac.i gave her what she wanted.i give them all what they want.i'm not responsible for how fucking soulless their wants are.
RYODAN- BURNED — Karen Marie Moning

There was but a single forlorn hope, and I took it. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

For white people, nothing makes them appreciate the gift of life more than voluntarily trying to end it. — Christian Lander

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

We cannot do great deeds unless we're willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness. — Theodore Roosevelt

I demand more from myself than anybody could ever expect. — Julius Erving

Once Michael gets up there he says, 'Well, maybe I'll just hang up here in the air for a while, just sit back.' Then all of a sudden, he says, 'Well, maybe I'll 360. No I changed my mind. I'll go up on the other side.' He's just incredible. — Magic Johnson

A guy who gives you less than what he has to give is, one, telling you what he thinks of you, and two, telling you what he thinks of himself. — Pete Carril

I love fools' experiments. I am always making them. — Charles Darwin

Psalms 25:

20 O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee.

21 Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee. — Anonymous

Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win. — Bobby Knight

Your limits are somewhere up there, waiting for you to reach beyond infinity. — Arnold Henry

I'm in love with a man who can't be honest with his family or anyone in his life outside of this penthouse. I desire a woman I barely know but crave more than I can understand. On top of that, the man I love wants her too, and it makes me want her more, if possible. How is any of this practical? — Amelia LeFay

We try to stress the little things because little things lead to big things. — Steve Alford

One man cannot make a team. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

My mom always tells me that ... Nobody is going to remember you for the great basketball player you are but they will remember you for the character you have off the court and how many lives you're changed. — Isaiah Austin

There is no such thing as life in-between. — Pat Riley

You wouldn't shut up about how brain-damaged that 'little Rusky diva-bitch' was and how he needed to just 'get over his sorry self and give our poor cop a blow job and live happily ever after' - you remember that? — Amy Lane

The best teams have chemistry. They communicate with each other and they sacrifice personal glory for a common goal. — Dave DeBusschere

I don't try to get players emotionally up for a game; it creates too many peaks and valleys ... I strive for even keel; they will get up for the big games. — Denny Crum

Nobody's more important than the team. — Rejean Houle

New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just because there is no room. — Patricia Marx