Awesome Basketball Quotes

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.

Systems win! Believe in your system, and then sell it to your players.

It's what you get from games you lose that is extremely important.

In all the research you do as a coach, studying other coaches and championship-type situations, you find that all those teams combined talent with great defense. You've got to stop other teams to win.

Not only is there more to life than basketball, there's a lot more to basketball than basketball.

A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.

Basketball doesn't build character it reveals it.

The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy.

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.

Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals.

To do the right thing at the right season is a great art.

Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise

Coaching is easy. Winning is the hard part.

What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

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.

The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.

If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.

When I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I got things exactly correct. My dream was to become a pro.

We try to stress the little things because little things lead to big things.

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.

You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.

I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

There is no such thing as life in-between.

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.

One man cannot make a team.

There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out.

You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.

Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.

If you are afraid of failure, you don't deserve success.

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But 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.

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

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.