“Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.”
Source: Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle
Motivational Basketball Quotes
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Motivational Basketball Quotes
“It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.”
Source: They Call Me Coach
“You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.”
“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”
“A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.”
Source: Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle
“It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.”
Source: Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle
“What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.”
Source: Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle
Source: Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle
“The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.”
Source: Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle
“Never mistake activity for achievement.”
Source: Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court
“Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.”
“Everyting negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.”
“One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.”
Source: I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence
“The will must be stronger than the skill.”
Source: The Greatest: My Own Story
“Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.”
Source: Winner Within Success
“Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.”
“Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't.”
“Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.”
“We try to stress the little things because little things lead to big things.”
“What you specifically teach is what your players will do best.”
“If you want team play, you must stress defense. Defense makes players unselfish.”
“Don't try to imitate other coaches. Be your own person with your own style and do your own thing.”
“Defense doesn't break down on the help, it breaks down on the recovery.”
“Systems win! Believe in your system, and then sell it to your players.”
“Your ability to communicate to your young people will determine your success.”
“If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you. You haven't done much today.”
Source: Mikhail Gorbachev: Prophet of Change : from the Cold War to a Sustainable World
“When the legs go, the heart and the head follow quickly behind.”