“I treat every day like it is my last day with a basketball,” – LeBron James
“A lot of late nights in the gym, a lot of early mornings, especially when your friends are going out, you’re going to the gym, those are the sacrifices that you have to make if you want to be an NBA basketball player,” – Jason Kidd
“Everything negative — pressure, challenges — are all an opportunity for me to rise,” – Kobe Bryant
“My greatest gift that I have in life is basketball,”- Isiah Thomas
“The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender,” – Vince Lombardi
“What do you do to help us win when you’re not scoring baskets?” – John Calipari
“The key is not the ‘will to win’… everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important” – Bob Knight
“What do you do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it” – Dean Smith
“Good players want to be coached… Great players want to be told the truth” – Doc Rivers
“Your best player has to set a tone of intolerance for anything that gets in the way of winning” – Jeff Van Gundy
“The more concerned we become over the things we can’t control, the less we will do with the things we can control” – John Wooden
“Don’t let winning make you soft. Don’t let losing make you quit. Don’t let your teammates down in any situation” – Larry Bird
“I’m not out there sweating for 3 hrs just to find out what it’s like to sweat” – Michael Jordan
“It’s what you get from games you lose that is extremely important” – Pat Riley
“You can’t always be the most talented person in the room. But you can be the most competitive” – Pat Summitt
“Basketball is a sport that involves the subtle interweaving of players at full speed to the point where they are thinking and moving as one” – Phil Jackson
“I can’t stand a ballplayer who plays in fear. Any fellow who has a good shot has got to take it and keep taking it. So he misses – so what?” – Red Auerbach
“It’s better to have a good player with the basketball in late game situations than to have plays” – Rick Pitino
“When you’re tired, sore, and can’t do more, that’s the time to do more” – Tim Grover
“If you’re not attacking, you’re slacking.” – Wade Bryant
“You have NO chance, until you give yourself one” – Wade Bryant
“Good Players find space, great players make space.” – Kerry Foderingham
“When you choose to attack 100% of your touches, the game changes” – Coach Mark Moyer