Basketball motivation Quotes · Page 3

Champions play as they practice. Create a consistency of excellence in all your habits.

— Mike Krzyzewski

Teams that play together beat those with superior players who play more as individuals.

— Jack Ramsay

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

— Jim Valvano

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

— Phil Jackson

Criticize on defense and encourage on offense.

— John Brady

I don't try to get players emotionally up for a game; it creates too many peaks and valleys... I strive for even…

— Denny Crum

Prepare for every game like you just lost your last game.

— Lon Kruger

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

— Dean Smith

Every season is a journey. Every journey is a lifetime.

— Mike Krzyzewski

If you are honest with yourself and can look into a mirror and believe that you have given 100 percent, you should…

— John Havlicek

In all the research you do as a coach, studying other coaches and championship-type situations, you find that all those teams combined…

— Pat Riley

Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.

— Bill Walton

I'd rather be a non-All-Star playing in the Western Conference finals than an All-Star who's sitting at home in May.

— Stephen Curry

Simplify the game as much as possible. When you add, you must subtract.

— Don Meyer

Shout praise and whisper criticism.

— Don Meyer

The two ingredients in success in basketball are playing hard and playing intelligently.

— Pete Carril

If you get tough mentally, you can get tough physically and overcome fatigue.

— Pat Riley

There is no such thing as life in-between.

— Pat Riley

Great players and great teams want to be driven. They want to be pushed to the edge. They don't want to be…

— Pat Riley

You can practice shooting eight hours a day, but if your technique is wrong, then all you become is very good at…

— Michael Jordan

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

— Phil Jackson

It is not what you teach, but what you emphasize.

— Don Meyer

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

— Michael Jordan

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

— Magic Johnson