Basketball is a pretty simple game. What wins is consistency and competitiveness. — Gregg Popovich
The NBA is all about winning, but at this level (college basketball) winning doesn't make you happy. You can win, and play lousy, and in my program, feel lousy. To me it's about: How good can we be. — Geno Auriemma
In basketball - as in life - true joy comes from being fully present in each and every moment, not just when things are going your way. — Phil Jackson
I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot. — Kobe Bryant
Coaches win practices, players win games — Pete Carril
How do you win? By getting average players to play good and good players to play great. That's how you win. — Bum Phillips
winning is not everything it is the only thing — Vince Lombardi
To win the big games you must get to the Free Throw line, and then you must make them. — Rick Majerus
Basketball is a beautiful game when the five players on the court play with one heartbeat. — Dean Smith
Blending the talents of your team members is crucial to basketball success. — John Kundla
Championships and great seasons are won in locker rooms. — Tom Izzo
Winning is about having the whole team on the same page. — Bill Walton
You have to make shots to win basketball games and we didn't do that. You also have to get back on defense, so it was a double-whammy. — Gregg Popovich
Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character. — John Wooden
Short Winning Basketball Quotes
Basketball doesn't build character it reveals it. — James Naismith
Winning as a team is better than anything. It's great to share success. — Jim Harbaugh
Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that. — Ayrton Senna
Winning doesn't really matter as long as you win — Vinnie Jones
For me winning isn`t surprising at all — Dorian Yates
I love winning more than I love playing badminton. Winning is everything. — Saina Nehwal
Individuals play the game, but teams win championships. — Unknown
To win is always good for the feeling of the whole team. — Jurgen Klopp
Championship teams are built on being prepared, playing unselfishly and being held accountable. — Jason Kidd
Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself. — Paul Bryant
Winning Basketball Image Quotes
If you quit ONCE it becomes a habit.Never quit!!! — Michael Jordan
When someone disrespects you, beware the impulse to win their respect. For disrespect is not a valuation of your worth but a signal of their character.
Basketball Team Winning Quotes
If you're struggling with your shooting, then do other things on the basketball court. Get steals, get assists, get rebounds-do anything on the court to help the team win. — Allen Iverson
The secret of winning is working more as a team, less as individuals. — Knute Rockne
Basketball is a team game. But that doesn't mean all five players should have the same amount of shots. — Dean Smith
Every time you find some humor in a difficult situation, you win.
Winning coaches look for opportunities to praise. Anything that reflects a commitment to the team is praiseworthy — Bill Parcells
This is a team game and one man doesn't win and one man doesn't lose. In the end, the best team usually wins. — Wilt Chamberlain
If you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships. — Michael Jordan
There is a battle of two wolves inside us all. One is evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, lies, inferiority and ego. The other is good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy and truth. The wolf that wins? The one you feed.
Do you want to choose winning over standing out? It's a choice every player on every championship team has to do — Doc Rivers
Your program must have an overriding purpose which is clearly visible and which teaches lessons beyond winning. — Don Meyer
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
Win Or Lose Basketball Quotes
You can't measure success if you have never failed. My father has taught me that if you really do want to reach your goals, you can't spend any time worrying about whether you're going to win or lose. Focus only on getting better. — Steffi Graf
The only thing even in this world is the number of hours in a day. The difference in winning or losing is what you do with those hours. — Woody Hayes
Sure, I like to win when I play basketball or board games or video games, but my day isnt ruined if I lose. Im always up for a rematch. In all seriousness, thats something thats nice about maturing. — Aaron Staton
Every time you are able to find some humor in a difficult situation, you win.
Win or lose, I am programmed to do more. That's because I am the other son of Jorel - Superman. — Shaquille O'Neal
...Basketball doesn't care what color your skin is. It doesn't care what language you speak or what religion you practice. It doesn't care if you're big or small, fast or slow. It just asks you to play, to complete, to lose with dignity, to win humility. — Jim Calhoun
Basketball Championship Quotes
So, yeah, I'm going to try to win the national championship next year. But I'm not going to kill myself doing it. I'm not going to kill my players either. You really start to realize there's a lot more to what we're trying to do then winning games — Geno Auriemma
I love the game of basketball, and as long as I can do that, keep playing and try to get some more championships with the organization, I’ll be happy. — Kawhi Leonard
We would have two less championships here if it was not for Manu Ginobili. In my eyes, he's the stud of the world. — Gregg Popovich
Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
A lot of guys go through their whole careers and don't win a championship, but are still great coaches. — Chuck Daly
College coaches measure success in championships. High School coaches measure success to titles. Youth coaches measure success in smiles. — Paul McAllister
You aren't going to win championships unless you make layups and free throws. — Don Meyer
The difference between winning and losing is most often not qiuting.
In sixth grade, my basketball team made it to the league championships. In double overtime, with three seconds left, I rebounded the ball and passed it - to the wrong team! They scored at the buzzer and we lost the game. To this day, I still have nightmares! — Zac Efron
If you have talent with teamwork, you've got a chance to be a championship team. — Mike Krzyzewski
Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion. — Magic Johnson
If you play good attack, you win the game, but, if you play good defence you win championships — Zeljko Obradovic
Winning Sports Quotes
You have to believe in yourself when no one else does. — Serena Williams
If we dare to win, we should also dare to lose — Lee Chong Wei
Victory is in having done your best. If you've done your best, you've won. — Bill Bowerman
To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children... to leave the world a better place... to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
Passion is a huge prerequisite to winning. It makes you willing to jump through hoops, go through all the ups and downs and everything in between to reach your goal. — Kerri Walsh
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. — Wilma Rudolph
This is the greatest thing about sports - you play to win the game. Hello? You don't play to just play it. When you start telling me it doesn't matter, then retire, get out, because it matters. — Herman Edwards
It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.
I look into eyes, shake their hand, pat their back, and wish them luck, but I am thinking, I am going to bury you. — Seve Ballesteros
Revolution is a spectators sport. The majority will sit in the stands and watch the factions fight. At the end they will choose side with the team that is winning. — George Lincoln Rockwell
There are only two types of player-those who keep their nerves under control and win championships, and those who do not. — Harry Vardon
If you want to win, do the ordinary things better than anyone else does them day in and day out. — Chuck Noll
Winning Football Quotes
I prefer that Argentina wins the World Cup. Messi deserves it for all he has done in football. He's my friend, I wish him the best — Neymar
It's not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters. — Bear Bryant
If you win without sacrifice you enjoy it but it's more satisfying when you have struggled. — Andres Iniesta
Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.
It's time for the New England Patriots to move on and that's what our job is. And as I said, our goal is the same: to have a winning football team, to be a pillar in the community. That's what our direction is; that's what we're going to do. — Bill Belichick
When I arrive at the gates of Heaven the Good Lord will ask ‘what did you do in your life?’ I will respond ‘I tried to win football matches.’ He will say: ‘Are you certain that’s all?’ But, well, that’s the story of my life. — Arsene Wenger
It's awfully important to win with humility. It's also important to lose. I hate to lose worse than anyone, but if you never lose you won't know how to act. If you lose with humility, then you can come back. — Bear Bryant
Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.
There is no academic virtue in playing mediocre football and no academic vice in winning a game that by all odds one should lose...There has indeed been a surrender at Notre Dame, but it is a surrender to excellence on all fronts, and in this we hope to rise above ourselves with the help of God. — Theodore Hesburgh
Attitude determines how well you do it. — Lou Holtz
I may win and I may lose, but I will never be defeated — Emmitt Smith
The goal is to win. It's not about making money. I have many much less risky ways of making money than this (buying Chelsea football club). I don't want to throw my money away, but it's really about having fun and that means success and trophies. — Roman Abramovich
Basketball Success Quotes
Success is not an accident, success is actually a choice. — Stephen Curry
What I tell people is be the best version of yourself in anything that you do. You don't have to live anybody else's story. — Stephen Curry
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. — Stevie Wonder
Success comes after you conquer your biggest obstacles and hurdles. — Stephen Curry
Every time I rise up, I have confidence that I'm going to make it. — Stephen Curry
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. — Muhammad Ali
Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.
I'm not the guy who's afraid of failure. I like to take risks, take the big shot and all that. — Stephen Curry
Doesn't matter where you come from, what you have or don't have... All you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to. — Stephen Curry
A successful person realizes his personal responsibility for self-motivation. He starts with himself because he possesses the key to his own ignition switch. — Kemmons Wilson
The stats win nothing. I'm still sexy. I'm still great. — Shaquille O'Neal
Basketball Game Quotes
The most important measure of how good a game I played was how much better I’d made my teammates play. — Bill Russell
I play every game like it's my last game. All that matters is that you go out there and play every game as if it was your last. — Allen Iverson
Like life, basketball is messy and unpredictable. It has its way with you, no matter how hard you try to control it. The trick is to experience each moment with a clear mind and open heart. When you do that, the game - and life - will take care of itself. — Phil Jackson
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
Obviously the thing that's cool about games - a basketball game is just a basketball game. — Jensen Huang
In the game of basketball, I play first off because I love it. I love to have fun. I love to run up and down the court. — Kevin Durant
I thought we were aggressive across the board defensively, and you could just see it grow. As the game went along, you could see the confidence grow. It showed in the fourth quarter. — Bill Laimbeer
It always amazes me that spectators want to coach, coaches want to officiate, and officials just want to watch the game — Lou Holtz
I didn’t fall in love with it just because it was me playing. I fell in love with it because I’ve got guys like this – like these guys every single day that push me to be the best that I can be. — Kevin Durant
If one of our players gets his second foul in the first half, then he must come out of the game and not re-enter until the second half. To play defense and not foul is an art that must be mastered if you are going to be successful. — Chuck Daly
Good Basketball Quotes
Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We. — Phil Jackson
You can practice shooting eight hours a day, but if your technique is wrong, then all you become is very good at shooting the wrong way. Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise. — Michael Jordan
How good can we expect to be if our best player is not our best teammate — Brad Stevens
A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are. — Ara Parseghian
Work hard, stay focused and surround yourself with good people. — Tom Osborne
To do the right thing at the right season is a great art. — Helio Gracie
On good teams coaches hold players accountable, on great teams players hold players accountable — Joe Dumars
I do a little sign on the court every time i make a shot or a good pass and i pound my chest and point to the sky - it symbolizes that i have a heart for God. It’s something that my mom and I came up with in college and I do it every time I step on the floor as a reminder of who i’m playing for. — Stephen Curry
Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team. — Scottie Pippen
Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service, and character. — William Arthur Ward
Awesome Basketball Quotes
Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise — Michael Jordan
Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength. — Phil Jackson
Meadowlark was the most sensational, awesome, incredible basketball player I've ever seen. — Wilt Chamberlain
Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them. — Julius Erving
Not only is there more to life than basketball, there's a lot more to basketball than basketball. — Phil Jackson
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. — Pete Carril
We try to stress the little things because little things lead to big things. — Steve Alford
Systems win! Believe in your system, and then sell it to your players. — Billy Donovan
It's what you get from games you lose that is extremely important. — Pat Riley
In life, winning and losing will both happen. What is never acceptable is quitting. — Magic Johnson
In basketball - as in life - true joy comes from being fully present in each and every moment, not just when things are going your way. Of course, it's no accident that things are more likely to go your way when you stop worrying about whether you're going to win or lose and focus your full attention on what's happening right this moment. — Phil Jackson
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing. — Phil Jackson
They said you have to use your five best players but I found you win with the five who fit together the best. — Red Auerbach
Celebration is big for me. From my younger days, when I used to win mementos while playing basketball, I have always believed in sharing my success. It has to be there. It lifts the energy levels of the entire side if you are positive and vocal when a wicket falls. — Suresh Raina
I always say to my guys, 'The most important day of your life is today. This very minute is the most important of you life. You must win this minute. You must win this day. And tomorrow will take care of itself. — John Chaney
You have to earn your right to win the game with effort and togetherness — Brad Stevens
The number one problem that keeps people from winning in the United States today is lack of belief in themselves. — Arthur L. Williams, Jr.
In the game of basketball, you get around someone so you can get past them. Play this game the same way. You go for the win, you don’t settle for a tie. — Tim Grover
I didn't get into teaching and coaching for the number of wins or the money. It was a passion for trying to help young people — Bo Ryan
Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison. — Mahatma Gandhi
Know how to win and how to lose and be able to handle adversity. — Tom Osborne
When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win. — Ed Macauley
You can make all the excuses you want, but if you're not mentally tough and you're not prepared to play every night, you're not going to win. — Larry Bird
You don't win games as a coach during games. You win games as a coach before games. Players win during games, not coaches — Red Auerbach
For me, it always goes back to something I learned in basketball. There's winning and there's losing, and in life you have to know they both will happen. But what's never been acceptable to me is quitting. — Magic Johnson
I've never felt my job was to win basketball games - rather, that the essence of my job as a coach was to do everything I could to give my players the background necessary to succeed in life. — Bobby Knight
Your best player has to set a tone of intolerance for anything that gets in the way of winning — Jeff Van Gundy
We're focusing on the whole pie, not a slice. A slice is good, but it's not good enough to get you fat. We're trying to get fat. — Shaquille O'Neal
Some clubs want to win so much they'll do anything to get it. Our approach has been just the opposite. We've tried to do things the right way. And the right way is [abiding by] the rules and regulations ... I may not like all of them, but once they are [official], we play by them. — Don Shula
I take my sport damned seriously. Basketball is my life. There are other people who go into important games as if they were any other game. I'm a brooder and I spend a lot of time thinking about my opponent, about the things he can do and about what I have to do to win. I don't think I'll ever be able to change that. — Dirk Nowitzki
I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. — Michael Jordan
I have one thing to say to those non-believers. Don't ever underestimate the heart of a champion. — Rudy Tomjanovich
In all my years one thing has never changed; You win with serious, tough-minded players. That never changes — Tom Thibodeau
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