Inspirational Basketball Quotes

Inspirational Basketball Quote of the day

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

I'm not the guy who's afraid of failure. I like to take risks, take the big shot and all that.

Every time I rise up, I have confidence that I'm going to make it.

Basketball doesn't build character it reveals it.

I've never been afraid of big moments. I get butterflies.. I get nervous and anxious, but I think those are all good signs that I'm ready for the moment.

The grass is not always greener on the other side. You learn to appreciate these people.

I try to penetrate the lane like Steve Nash, pass like Jason Kidd, and handle the ball like Allen Iverson. Remember, I said 'try to'.

You don't have to live anybody else's story.

Leadership is action, not position

I always wanted to be a basketball player.

Everyone wants to do what the great ones do; but very few are willing to do what they did to become great

The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.

I don't look at myself as a basketball coach. I look at myself as a leader who happens to coach basketball.

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.

I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.

I used to play basketball and I was pretty competitive, but I was never a bad loser. I never got angry. For me it was always about doing my best and devoting myself to a challenge.

It isn't about what you do, but how you do it

Kobe Bryant is my favorite basketball player. He takes risks. He goes for the shot. He isn't cautious with whatever he does.

There's been a lot of talk of me being a one-man show but that's simply not the case. We win games when I score 40 points and we've won when I score 10.

I enjoy the last quarter of all basketball games.

There are only so many hours you can sit on the bus and watch TV or play basketball or whatever we do to pass the time before we go out onstage.

In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play.

So like any football or basketball coach, you always always believe you're going to win.

A lot of times I blend in a little bit easier because I'm not like a basketball player who's going to stand out because of his height.

There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons.

See, my hope and dream is that people have a good time watching basketball. It's not church. It's not serious.

OK, I'll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is a Rhodes Scholar.

There was the misconception out there that I retired after the 2008 season, but that was never the case. I wasn't done with basketball yet, and I'm still not done.