| Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play. It is as simple as that. God, I love that opportunity. ~Mike Singletary~ |
| Basketball is my escape, my refuge. It seems that everything else is so…so busy and complicated. ~Micheal Jordan~ |
| Defense starts with a determination and pride to excel. It comes with knowledge and communication, and you’ve got have heart. To the timid soul, nothing is possible. To the aggressor, everything is possible. ~John Bach~ |
| When you're part of a team, you stand up for your teammates. Your loyalty is to them. You protect them through good and bad, because they'd do the same for you. ~Yogi Berra~ |
| You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through. ~Rosalynn Carter~ |
| It doesn’t make sense to be nervous playing basketball. There are too many other things in life to be nervous about. ~ Jalen Rose~ |
| There’s nothing quite like the feeling of being inside those four lines and doing your thing. ~Isiah Thomas~ |
| Basketball was never a recreation for me. It was my whole life-something I fell in love with. ~Larry Bird~ |
| What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player. ~John Wooden~ |
| As a kid, I had a vivid imagination in the back yard. I was player, coach, announcer, even timekeeper. And if I missed the last shot at the buzzer, there was always time for one more-or ten. ~ Jerry West~ |
| People say, “Relax, the game is over. The game is over.” Well, the game is never over. ~Red Auerbach~ |
| "I believe in playing with your heart, with every fiber in your body--fairly, squarely, by the rules--to win. And I believe that any man's finest moment, the greatest fulfillment of all he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out and lies exhausted on the floor of battle--victorious." ~Bela Karolyi~ |
| Your opponent, in the end, is never really the player on the other side of the net, or the swimmer in the next lane, or the team on the other side of the field, or even the bar you must high-jump. Your opponent is yourself, your negative internal voices, your level of determination. ~Grace Lichtenstein~ |
| Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them -- a desire, a dream, a vision. ~Muhammad Ali~ |
| Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. ~Michael Jordan~ |
| When it's played the way is spozed to be played, basketball happens in the air; flying, floating, elevated above the floor, levitating the way oppressed peoples of this earth imagine themselves in their dreams. ~John Edgar Wideman~ |
| Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself. You may be surprised at how easily this happens. Your doubts are not as powerful as your desires, unless you make them so ~Marcia Wieder~ |
| It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom ~Anais Nin~ |
| I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down. ~Mia Hamm~ |
| "Teamwork means that we share a common ideal and embrace a common goal. Regardless of our differences, we strive shoulder to shoulder, confident in one another's faith, trust, and commitment. In the end, teamwork can be summed up in five short words... 'we believe in each other.'" |
| The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion when no one else is watching." ~Anson Dorrance~ |
| "I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I LOVE to play." ~Boris Becker~ |
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| Confidence is the result of hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication. ~Roger Staubach~ |
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