365 Basketball Quotes: Basketball Quote of the Day

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November Quotes

  1. “Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.” Bill Russell (Top 6 Bill Russell Quotes)
  2. “I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can’t trust em.” Jim Valvano (Top 25 Jim Valvano Quotes)
  3. “If you want to be a great shooter from 25 feet, you better be a great shooter from 4 feet first.” Steve Kerr Post: How to Be a Great Basketball Shooter
  4. “The key is not the ‘will to win’… everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.” Bob Knight
  5. “Shooting percentage is just as much about decision making as it is about technique” Jeff Van Gundy Post: How to Be a Great Basketball Shooter
  6. “You have a choice to make when you’re not playing. Either you’re invested and a great teammate, or your not” Brad Stevens
  7. “It’s a great game because you can’t cheat it. If you don’t practice, the ball doesn’t go in. You can’t cheat it.” Bob Huggins
  8. November 11th Veterans Day: I’m surrounded by nothing but great people. I’ve been blessed with that, so really, I’ve got no choice but to be an all-around good person. Tim Duncan

December Quotes

  1. Jimmy V Week: “Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.” Jim Valvano (Top 25 Jim Valvano Quotes)
  2. “Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.” Jim Valvano (Top 25 Jim Valvano Quotes)
  3. “We win or the alumni bash in our teeth.” (explaining the dental plan at North Carolina State) Jim Valvano (Top 25 Jim Valvano Quotes)
  4. “If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day. That’s a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you’re going to have something special.”
  5. “Be a dreamer. If you don’t know how to dream, you’re dead.” Jim Valvano (Top 25 Jim Valvano Quotes)
  6. “There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It’s up to you to decide what to do with them.” Jim Valvano (Top 25 Jim Valvano Quotes)
  7. Larry Bird’s Birthday (1956) “I’ve got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.” Larry Bird (Larry Bird Quotes)
  8. “I made a ridiculous statement when I first went to North Carolina State. I said I know basketball down there was like life or death. It was very wrong. It’s more important.” (Top 25 Jim Valvano Quotes)
  9. “Why shouldn’t I milk it? We’re an agricultural institution.” (after all his endorsement offers after North Carolina State won the NCAA Tournament) Jim Valvano (Top 25 Jim Valvano Quotes)
  10. “Success is a result of consistent practice of winning skills and actions. There is nothing miraculous about the process. There is no luck involved.” Bill Russell (Bill Russell Quotes)
  11. “Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.” Bill Russell (Bill Russell Quotes)
  12. “What distinguishes a great player is his presence. When he goes on to the court, his presence dominates the atmosphere.” Bill Russell (Bill Russell Quotes)

January Quotes

  1. “Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best.“ Tim “The Big Fundamental” DuncanFebruary Quotes
  2. “The key is not the ‘will to win’… everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.” – Bob Knight (Bob Knight Quotes)
  3. “What you are as a person is far more important that what you are as a basketball player.” John Wooden (John Wooden Quotes)
  4. “I don’t know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody – somewhere – was practicing more than me.” Larry Bird (Larry Bird Quotes)
  5. “Winners are not people who do not fail, but people who never quit.“ Anonymous
  6. “If all I’m remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I’ve done a bad job with the rest of my life.” Isiah Thomas
  7. “I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.“ Michael Jordan
  8. “Teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one.” Mike Krzyzewski
  9. “When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort–it is ready to climb.“ Pat Riley
  10. “All the successful teams I’ve ever seen have three characteristics: They play unselfish, they play together, and they play hard.“ Larry Brown
  11. “Everyone is born with a certain potential. You may never achieve your full potential, but how close you come depends on how much you want to pay the price.“ Red Auerbach
  12. January 11th National Milk Day: “Why shouldn’t I milk it? We’re an agricultural institution.” (after all his endorsement offers after North Carolina State won the NCAA Tournament) Jim Valvano (Top 25 Jim Valvano Quotes)
  13. “Success is a result of consistent practice of winning skills and actions. There is nothing miraculous about the process. There is no luck involved.” Bill Russell (Top 6 Bill Russell Quotes)
  14. “Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.“ Magic Johnson
  15. “Everything negative — pressure, challenges — are all an opportunity for me to rise.“ Kobe Bryant
  16. “Winning teams at the NBA level, the college level, and the high school level all play team basketball. Championship teams have five players on the same page at all times.“ Hubie Brown
  17. “The magic to a great meeting is all of the work that’s done beforehand.” Bill Russell (Bill Russell Quotes)
  18. “I’m still waiting for perfection. In the meantime, I’ll settle for persistence.” Bo Ryan
  19. “If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!“ Charles Barkley
  20. “Preparation will be my separation.” Kevin Eastman
  21. “I’m still waiting for perfection. In the meantime, I’ll settle for persistence.” Bo Ryan
  22. “Shooting percentage is just as much about decision making as it is about technique” Jeff Van Gundy
  23. “Young men need more models, not critics.” John Wooden (John Wooden Quotes)
  24. “If all I’m remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I’ve done a bad job with the rest of my life.” Isiah Thomas
  25. “Teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one.”  Mike Krzyzewski
  26. “The one thing I learned about myself going back and watching tapes of all the losses that we’ve had is that I’m physically capable of doing this and dominating the game, but the mental part was not there. I don’t know if it comes with age, but I had to learn to be mentally tough.” Lisa Leslie
  27. “Be led by your dreams not by your problems.” Roy Williams
  28. “You don’t play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.” Bobby Knight (Bob Knight Quotes)
  29. “Sometimes a player’s greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.” Scottie Pippen
  30. “If you’re not talking, you’re not playing defense.” Doc Rivers
  31. “The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.” Ann Landers

  1. “My goal is to win the next game one possession at a time. That’s it. I don’t have any other goals.” Brad Stevens
  2. “Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.” Bill Russell (Bill Russell Quotes)
  3. “What distinguishes a great player is his presence. When he goes on to the court, his presence dominates the atmosphere.” Bill Russell (Bill Russell Quotes)
  4. “Commitment separates those who live their dreams from those who live their lives regretting the opportunities they have squandered.” Bill Russell (Bill Russell Quotes)
  5. “Learning is a daily experience and a lifetime mission. I truly believe in the saying “We work to become, not to acquire.”” Bill Russell (Bill Russell Quotes)
  6. “Friendship is a full-time job.” Bill Russell Bill Russell (Bill Russell Quotes)
  7. “You can do anything you want to do if you want it bad enough.” Bill Russell (Bill Russell Quotes)

March Quotes

  1. “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
  2. March 2nd Read Across America Day: “My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.” Bill Russell (Bill Russell Quotes)

April Quotes

  1. “Commitment separates those who live their dreams from those who live their lives regretting the opportunities they have squandered.” Bill Russell (Bill Russell Quotes)

May Quotes

  1. “Learning is a daily experience and a lifetime mission. I truly believe in the saying “We work to become, not to acquire.”” Bill Russell (Bill Russell Quotes)

June Quotes

  1. Father’s Day: My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.” (Father’s Day Quotes)

July Quotes

  1. July 30th International Friendship Day: “Friendship is a full-time job.” Bill Russell Bill Russell (Bill Russell Quotes)

August Quotes

  1. “You can do anything you want to do if you want it bad enough.” Bill Russell (Bill Russell Quotes)

September Quotes

  1. “The magic to a great meeting is all of the work that’s done beforehand.” Bill Russell (Bill Russell Quotes)

October Quotes

  1. “If you want to be a great shooter from 25 feet, you better be a great shooter from 4 feet first.” Steve Kerr Post: How to Be a Great Basketball Shooter