| Author |
Quotes |
| Bobby Knight | Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one. |
| Bobby Knight | The key is not the "will to win" . . . everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important. |
| Bobby Knight | You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball. |
| Charles Barkley | If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming. |
| Charles Barkley | The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not. |
| Charles Barkley | These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it. |
| John Wooden | The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team. |
| John Wooden | Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. |
| Knute Rockne | Show me a good and gracious loser, and I'll show you a failure. |
| Larry Bird | I always know what's happening on the court. I see a situation occur, and I respond. |
| Larry Bird | Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around. If I don't keep changing. I'm history. |
| Larry Bird | When I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I got things exactly correct. My dream was to become a pro. |
| Michael Jordan | Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships. |
| Michael Jordan | The game is my life. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace. |
| Michael Jordan | You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. |
| Red Auerbach | Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up. |
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