The Best 50 Quotes by Basketball Players & Coaches

They say
that nobody is perfect.
Then they tell you
practice makes perfect.
I wish
they’d make up their minds.
Wilton Norman “Wilt” Chamberlain

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When you play against different people
from all walks of life
you can’t do
the same thing
against every player
defensively or offensively.
You have to change up the way
you go at a player.
Oscar Palmer Robertson

You can’t get
much done in life
if you only work on the days
when you feel good.
Jerry Alan West

A champion needs a motivation
above and beyond winning.
Patrick James “Pat” Riley

Great effort
springs naturally
from great attitude.
Patrick James “Pat” Riley

Excellence is the gradual result
of always striving
to do better.
Patrick James “Pat” Riley

Failure, to me,
is not having
the desire to try.
Having the desire to try
is in it own way
success.
Robert Montgomery “Bob” Knight

I have always maintained
that in basketball
the importance of the mental
to the physical
is about four to one.
Robert Montgomery “Bob” Knight

The strength of the team
is each individual member.
The strength of each member
is the team.
Philip Douglas “Phil” Jackson

Don’t give up.
Don’t ever give up.
James Thomas Anthony “Jim” Valvano