Basketball Is My Life Quotes

Heart is what separates the good from the great.

You can’t be afraid to fail. It’s the only way you succeed – you’re not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

I take my sport damned seriously. Basketball is my life. There are other people who go into important games as if they were any other game. I’m a brooder and I spend a lot of time thinking about my opponent, about the things he can do and about what I have to do to win. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to change that.

If you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.

My heroes are and were my parents. I can’t see having anyone else as my heroes.

In basketball – as in life – true joy comes from being fully present in each and every moment, not just when things are going your way.

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.

I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me . . . Failure always made me try harder next time.

I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.

Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That’s truly about the game, and in some ways that’s about life too.

Basketball is a team game. But that doesn’t mean all five players should have the same amount of shots.

People that don’t know me think that basketball is my life 24/7. Trust me, there is much more to my life. My number one priority in my life is my family.

Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.