Basketball Is My Life Quotes

Basketball Is My Life Quotes by Michael Jordan, LeBron James, Dirk Nowitzki, Phil Jackson, Dean Smith, Dick Vitale and many others.

Heart is what separates the good from the great.

Heart is what separates the good from the great.
Michael Jordan
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.
LeBron James
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.
Dirk Nowitzki
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.
Michael Jordan
My heroes are and were my parents. I can’t see having anyone else as my heroes.
Michael Jordan
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.
Phil Jackson
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
Michael Jordan
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.
Michael Jordan
The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.
Michael Jordan
I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me . . . Failure always made me try harder next time.
Michael Jordan
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.
Michael Jordan
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.
Michael Jordan
Basketball is a team game. But that doesn’t mean all five players should have the same amount of shots.
Dean Smith
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.
Dick Vitale
Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise
Michael Jordan
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.
Michael Jordan