Looking for the best basketball quotes? Here’s a collection of inspirational quotes from basketball players and coaches from the past and present. Basketball has a long tradition of great personalities. Whether they are universally beloved (Michael Jordan) or controversial (Bobby Knight), great basketball minds have a way of simplifying the game so that we can all understand and relate to it. Reading these basketball quotes can help you gain perspective and learn new ways to look at basketball and even life. We’ve compiled a list of fifty basketball quotes that we believe are among the best we’ve heard.
Basketball Quotes
- “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen. Others make it happen.” ~ Michael Jordan
- “Practice as you’ve never won. Play as if you’ve never lost.” ~ Michael Jordan
- “Sorry, you have to guard my hope you taped your ankles.”
- “If you don’t fall how are you going to know what getting up is like?” ~ Stephen curry
- “I can accept failure everyone fails at something, but what can’t accept is not trying.” ~ Michael Jordan
- “You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them… Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, and others make it happen.” ~ Michael Jordan
- “Just a girl who loves basketball.”
- “Some people believe you win with your five best players, but I found out that you win with the five who fit together best.” ~Red Auerbach
- “When you are not practicing, someone else is getting better.” ~ Allen Iverson
- “A boy once told me I play like a girl. I told him if he played hard enough, he could too .”
- “You don’t scare me I coach girls’ basketball.”
- “Success is not an accident, success is a choice.” ~ Stephen curry
- “Scared shots don’t make shots.”
- “When a child is learning how to walk and falls 50 times, they never think to themselves maybe this ain’t for me.” ~ Michael Jordan
- “Yes, I shoot like a girl needs a lesson?”
- “If you do not believe in yourself, no on will do it for you.” ~ Kobe Bryant
- “I know I play like a girl trying to keep up.”
- “Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard. Kevin Durant”
- “If at first, you don’t succeed… Try doing what your coach told you to do the first time.”
- “Behind all the hours of practice and all the coaches who pushed you, there’s a little girl… Who shot the ball, fell in love with the game, and never looked back.”
- “It is not how good you are it is how good you want to be.”
- “Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference between basketball success and basketball failure.” ~ Felicity Luckey
- “Kobe’s rules 1. Believe in yourself. 2. Get better every single day. 3. Prove them wrong. 4. Work on your weaknesses. 5. Execute what you practiced. 6. Learn from greatness. 7. Learn from wins & losses. 8. Practice mindfulness. 9. Be ambitious. 10. Believe in your team.”
- “Some people don’t like you just because your strength reminds them of their weakness. Don’t let the hate slow you down.”
- “You cannot achieve unless you believe… In yourself. You are more capable than you think.” ~ Elena
- “If you didn’t walk away with a blood bruise or a lap you didn’t play hard enough.”
- “I don’t fall. Gravity just likes me better than you.”
- “Eat sleep basketball repeat.”
- “Stay low go fast kill first die last one shot war one kill no luck all skill.”
- “The best teams have chemistry. They communicate with each other and they sacrifice personal glory for the common goal.” ~ Dave Debusschere
- “When you try to shoot something in the trash can and miss and everyone says ‘i thought you played basketball?!”
- “Love is playing every game as if it’s your last.” ~ Michael Jordan
- “A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That’s how I want you to play.” ~ Mike Krzyzewski
- “In basketball, you miss 100% of the shots you never take.”
- “Basket all is calling decline to accept and I must go!.”
- “If you don’t like basketball then you probably won’t like me and I’m ok with that”
- “Basketball isn’t just a sport. It is an art, one that must be mastered to succeed.” ~ Stephen curry
- “Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly. Achievement”
- “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.” ~ Michael Jordan
- “Success is not an accident success is a choice.” ~ Stephen curry”
- “Basketball I’m the queen of this court. Think you’re better than me? That’s cute. All I need is a ball and a hoop and I’ll be set for life. If at first, you don’t succeed, it’s because of me. I’m the girl your coach warned you about. Basketball is my favorite season.”
- “You can’t win unless you learn how to lose.” ~ Kareem Abdul-Jabba”
- “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
- “Yes, I’m tall, yes, I play basketball.”
- “You play how you practice. Practice hard. Never give up on the play. Being disciplined pays off. If the plays aren’t working, re-adjust the game plan. Play until the clock says 0:00. Winning requires teamwork. Work hard and play smart. Learn from losses. Celebrate the wins. Believe in yourself.” ~ Zeller princes
- “It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed”
- “You can’t control the minutes you play, but you can control how you play the minutes you get.”
- “Here’s how I’m going to beat you. I’m going to outwork you. That’s it. That’s all there is to it.” ~ Pat Summitt
- “Searched google still couldn’t find competition.”
- “When you’re not practicing someone else is getting better. Some people want it to happen. Others make it happen.” ~ Michael Jordan
- “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”
- “Basketball boys invented it: girls perfected it.”
- “Your toughest competition in life is anyone willing to work harder than you.”
- “You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them… Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, and others make it happen.” ~ Michael Jordan”
Basketball Quotes
There you have it, our choices for the 70 best basketball quotes. If you have some great basketball quotes that you would like for us to add comment below.
