Get pumped for the game with these basketball quotes!

Get pumped for the game with these basketball quotes! From legendary players like Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant to current stars like Lebron James and Steph Curry these quotes will get you fired up for some hoops action.

Michael Jordan Quotes

“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.”

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

“If you’re trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I’ve had them; everybody has had them. But 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.”

“The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.”

Kobe Bryant Quotes

“The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.”
“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.”
“I’m reflective only in the sense that I have time to think about what I’ve done and what I’m doing. And that allows me to move on to whatever I have to do next without looking back and dwelling on things too much.”
“I’m extremely determined. Once I put my mind to something, nothing will get in my way. Not even myself.”
“There’s no gray area with me. Either you see it my way, or you don’t see it at all.”

Lebron James Quotes

Lebron James is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association He is widely considered to be one of the greatest basketball players of all time.

“I’m not in shape right now. I’m about 285,290. I’m still a little heavy.”

“I’m going to use all my tools, my god-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.”

“I know I got a lot of game, but I just want to be able to show it.”

“You have to be able to accept failure to get better.”

Shaquille O’Neal Quotes

“I’m not liking how my Free throws look. I work on them every day, and they look terrible.”

“I think my next career move will be acting. A lot of people tell me I should act. But it’s not easy because I’m so busy working on my documentary, my rap album and trying to take over the world.”

“The other teams could have their will when it came to playing against us, but when it came time for a big shot, they knew we were going to make it. They might have been able to psychologically defeat other teams, but they never could do that with us. We always believed in each other.”

Larry Bird Quotes

“I think it’s just desire, having a will to win. You have to have the energy and will to get it done”

“All of my shooting is just repetitions, muscle memory. Any time I work on my game, I’m just trying to get my muscles used to doing what I want them to do”

“You can practice shooting eight hours a day, but if your technique is wrong, then all you become is very good at shooting the wrong way. Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise”

“My father taught me that if you try to do anything for somebody else or for yourself-and don’t succeed-it’s not fatal. What’s fatal is if you don’t try”

Magic Johnson Quotes

“All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.”

“One day, I realized that if my mind could conceive it and believe it, then I could achieve it.”

“If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.”

Bill Russell Quotes

“The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.”

“Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to be the best of which you are capable.”

“I’ve always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.”

“I think sports has done more to unite people than anything else. I think it has brought more people together than any other thing.”

Wilt Chamberlain Quotes

“Basketball is my passion, if I wasn’t doing this, I’d be dead.”
“I’d rather be remembered as a winner than as somebody who averaged 30 points a game.”
“Nobody roots for Goliath.”

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is a retired American professional basketball player who is currently the NBA’s All-time leading scorer. He played 20 seasons in the NBA for the Milwaukee Bucks and the Los Angeles Lakers During his career, he was a six-Ime Nba Most Valuable Player (MVP), a 19-time NBA All-Star a 15-time All-NBA selection, and an 11-time NBA All-Defensive team member. A member of six NBA Championship teams as a player and two as an Assistant Coach Abdul-Jabbar twice was voted NCAA College Player of the Year (1967, 1969), was a member of the Olympic gold medal–winning American basketball team at the 1976 Summer Olympics and was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1995. In 2012, he was selected by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to be a U.S. global cultural ambassador.

“Basketball is like water – it takes on the shape of its container.”

“I think that the ideal sportsman is somebody who’s able to deal with victory and defeat.”

“Your mind tells you what you can do; your heart tells you what you want to do.”

Other Inspirational Basketball Quotes

“The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I’ve always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It’s been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It’s a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.” -Michael Jordan

“You have to have that willingness to get better, that desire to win. You have to have those intangibles, and our team has showed they had it.” -Larry Bird

“There is no I in team, but there is in win.” -Michael Jordan

“It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get back up.” -Vince Lombardi