Basketball Quotes

Enjoy our collection of famous basketball quotes to live by. Basketball like other team sports requires more than talent; it requires a character that is directed towards what is best for the team and not for the individual. You can be the best player for shooting hoops but at the same time you can be the worse contributor to the team. These basketball quotes help to tell the real story.

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals.
James Naismith

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best.
Tim Duncan

Basketball doesn't build character it reveals it.
Author Unknown

There are really only two plays: Romeo and Juliet, and put the darn ball in the basket.
Abe Lemons

Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.
Scottie Pippen

Don't do more than you can do, but don't do less either.
Jeff Fletcher

You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.
Bobby Knight

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
Henry Ford

You miss 100% of the shots that you don't take.
Joe Ledbetter

It's not the hours you put in, it's what you put in the hours.
Author Unknown

Even when I'm old and gray, I won't be able to play it, but I'll still love the game.
Michael Jordan

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