Famous Basketball Quotes

Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts. ~ Tony Robbins

A Coach must never forget that he is a leader and not merely a person with authority. ~ John Wooden

The problem with many athletes is they take themselves seriously and their sport lightly. ~ Michael Waltrip

It's my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out. ~ Pat Summitt

The rule was "no autopsy, no foul". ~ Stewart Granger

Don't whine. Find the positive in difficult situations. ~ Tony DiCicco

Belief in yourself is what happens when you know you've done the thing things that entitle you to success. ~ Pat Summitt

There are some concrete ways to create a winning attitude. But nothing beats practicing it. When you prepare to win, belief comes easily. ~ Pat Summitt

In order to grow, you must accept new responsibilities, no matter how uncertain you may feel or how unprepared you are to deal with them. ~ Pat Summitt

Our self-image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the othe ~ Maxwell Maltz

When I go to the line I'm thinking 'All net.' When I don't think that, I'm likely to miss. ~ Larry Bird

Basketball gave me a lot, which is why I want to stay connected with this sport later on, maybe working with young people. But it would be more in the background. Being in the spotlight was never really my thing. I never wanted to be famous. ~ Dirk Nowitzki

I have seen countless people make a choice to be confident. If you don't naturally feel bold and confident, you can choose an attitude of confidence. ~ Richard DeVos

Be a famous musician. Be a famous act or. Be a famous write r. Be a famous basketball player. Be famous. ~ Dallas Clayton

Basketball is a game that gives you every chance to be great, and puts every pressure on you to prove that you haven't got what it takes. It never takes away the chance, and it never eases up on the pressure. ~ Bob Sundvold

Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to the possessor. ~ John Milton

As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people. ~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

The first time I shot the hook, I was in fourth grade, and I was about five feet eight inches tall. I put the ball up and felt totally at ease with the shot. I was completely confident it would go in. I've been shooting it ever since. ~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Doing more of what doesn't work won't make it work any better. ~ Charles J. Givens

Don't get angry; get better. ~ Tony DiCicco

Man is what he believes. ~ Anton Chekhov

Nothing is stronger than habit. ~ Ovid

I don't hire good coaches, I hire good people. If they turn out to be good coaches, too, that's a plus. ~ Geno Auriemma

As we develop new beliefs about who we are, our behavior will change to support the new identity. ~ Tony Robbins

Talent is not enough. It's an important component in a successful performance, but it's really only a starting point. ~ Tony DiCicco

The greatest strength any human being an have is to recognize his or her own weaknesses. When you identify your weaknesses, you can begin to remedy them - or at least figure out how to work around them. ~ Pat Summitt

I haven't been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either. ~ Dave Barry

Winning is like deodorant - it comes up and a lot of things don't stink. ~ Doc Rivers

Do your best when no one is looking. ~ Bob Cousy

When I was 3, my father stopped coming home. ~ Dennis Rodman

Of all the questions I'm asked, the most difficult is, "How does it feel to be famous?" Since I'm not, that question always catches me with a feeling of surrealism ... I've got three kids and I've changed all their diapers, and when it's two o'clock in the morning and you're changing something that's sort of special delivery with one eye open and one eye shut you don't feel famous. ~ Stephen King

We should think of those who were famous for their good deeds or their bad deeds; did their fame raise them one single degree in the sight of Allah. Did it win them a reward that they had not already won by their actions during their life? ~ Ibn Hazm

You make name for yourself when you overcome pain, weakness, laziness and ignorance ~ Sunday Adelaja

People err who think my art comes easily to me. I assure you, dear friend, nobody has devoted so much time and thought to compositions as I. There is not a famous master whose music I have not industriously studied through many times. ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

We moved around a lot at first as a kid, and then I was on the road at 17, and new in town by the time I got to LA, and then famous again with that whirlwind. I did really want substance in my life, and when I stopped with the road for my children, it was really because I didn't want to miss out. It wasn't just selflessness. I didn't want to miss out on that. ~ Lynda Carter

I think there are a lot of people who really want to be famous, they really do. I don't. It sort of gets in the way of the everyday things that I do. ~ Johnny Mathis

I guess if you go around with famous people you are assured of some reflected (or deflected) glory. ~ Ambeth R. Ocampo

For now I'm just enjoying being a mom. I don't want to be more famous and more rich. I want to be a good mom. ~ Jewel

I went from being totally unknown and never acting professionally to being in a major movie and being very famous. It all happened so quickly, I didn't have any time to work things out. It's been pretty scary at times. ~ Emma Watson

I lived in New York my whole life. Like every New Yorker, I have stories about spending summers on the Jersey shore, riding the roller coaster in Seaside that is now famous for that sickening photo of it being washed out to sea. ~ Marissa Jaret Winokur

What good is all the cash if it doesn't buy time and what good is bein famous if I'm never on your mind? ~ Drake

Everybody think they're famous when they get 100,000 followers on Instagram and 5,000 on Twitter. ~ Meek Mill

My motto is very simple. Win a Ring for the King. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf. ~ Jesse Jackson

You're always going to face criticism, you're always going to face challenges, but those things are there to make you stronger and more committed. ~ David Robinson

I've never dated anyone in Hollywood - or anyone famous, for that matter. I don't know that I'm ever gonna write a song that you will know who it's about. ~ Ed Sheeran

Manila is a city of extremes. The poor are very poor and the rich very rich. They live side by side. The rich live in sprawling houses in residential subdivisions with fancy names like Green Meadows, White Plains, Corinthian Plaza, Bel Air, San Lorenzo, Magallanes and the very exclusive Forbes Park, a leafy enclave that was home to the famous Manila Polo Club. The poor are not far from sight. They live in little pockets on the periphery of these affluent subdivisions. A constant reminder to the rich that there is another side to life. ~ Arlene J. Chai

In our eyes we should be up three to one but we're not ~ Mike Bibby

I lived in Cuba - I was there for one year in the 1950s. We built the famous nightclub, which is still there, Tropicana, and a restaurant, Montecatini, that I opened is still there. I was there when the U.S. ambassador said everyone must leave because Castro was arriving the next morning. ~ Sirio Maccioni

I loved the glamour and excitement of the games and, in particular, knowing the names of each and every one of the referees - that's because my mom, a former basketball player, would yell at them from our front-row seats for making bad calls! ~ Hannah Storm

I started in '88 to play House music, it was a huge revolution for me. I went to London and I saw a DJ on stage and that was crazy at the time. I was one of the really respected and famous DJs in Paris, but they would never show me. I was hidden. A DJ on stage and people dancing and facing the DJ, looking at him? I was like 'wow! ~ David Guetta

I have been DJing in clubs for years. I always dreamed to be a famous DJ in Holland. And now it's worldwide. You can't imagine. I mean, I still can't believe it myself that everything has gone so well. ~ Tiesto

And I continued to grow until I was 25 years old. ~ Julius Erving

I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer. ~ Jim Carrey

Better known as the Secret of the Golden Flower, this is a famous neidan text that the Western world came to know through Richard Wilhelm's 1929 translation. The Chinese text used by Wilhelm was edited by Zhanran Huizhen zi in 1921. Besides this, at least five more versions are available, all of which date to the late Qing dynasty (1644-1911) and are ascribed to Lu Dongbin, who revealed them through spirit writing. ~ Monica Esposito

In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them ~ Bobby Knight

There is a lot of difference at McDonald's between the guy in the back making the fries and the manager up front who is running the place. ~ Don Meyer

You have to clean out the pig barn every week because you know your pigs are in there doing their jobs every day. ~ Don Meyer

He developed his revolutionary philosophy, with its grounding not in the Bible or ancient writers but in human reason, and became famous and infamous for it. ~ Russell Shorto

I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards. ~ Yani Tseng

The man's posture said it all. God help the person dumb enough to ever lay a finger on Savannah Dubrinsky. Johnson had been worried about some San Francisco nutcase trying to get to the famous magician while she was in town, but now that he had met her husband, he figured anyone trying to touch her would have to be suicidal. He ~ Christine Feehan

While I sign off on trades or free agents, I've rarely overruled my basketball people's decisions. But I'm not shy about steering the discussion or pushing deeper if something doesn't make sense to me. ~ Paul Allen