Inspiration Quotes

"There are 5 fundamental qualities that make every team great: communication, trust, collective responsibility, caring, and pride"

- Mike Krzyzewski

"Mental Toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it's not the best thing for you"

- Bill Belichick

"The goal is to make practice more difficult, physically/mentally, than anything your players will face during a game"

- Bobby Knight

"We're building a culture of accountability, trust, and togetherness. Entitlement will not be tolerated"

- Brad Stevens

"There is a lot of basketball beyond our control, but a player should never let anyone try harder than he does"

- Dean Smith

"Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance."

- Morgan Freeman

"We may all have come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now."

- Martin Luther King III

"Play the right way means play unselfishly, respect each other's achievements, play hard, fulfill your role"

- Gregg Popovich

"Practice gotta be harder than the games and it never is unless you want it to be as a player. The coach can't drive that"

- John Calipari

"What you are as a person is far more important that what you are as a basketball player"

- John Wooden

"When opportunity comes, it's too late to prepare"

- John Wooden

"Discipline yourself, and others won't need to"

- John Wooden

"I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end"

- Larry Bird

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

- Michael Jordan

"I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results"

- Michael Jordan

"In developing teams, I don't believe in rules. I believe in standards. Rules don't promote teamwork, standards do"

- Mike Krzyzewski

"Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better"

- Pat Riley

"A guy who gives you less than what he has to give is, one, telling you what he thinks of you, and two, telling you what he thinks of himself"

- Pete Carroll

"Mental is to the physical as four is to one"

- Bobby Knight

"Make the practices like games and the games like practices"

- Don Meyer

"Young men need more models, not critics"

- John Wooden

"Remember this, the choices you make in life, make you"

- John Wooden

"Today's society wants to skip the process. And I hate that"

- Tom Izzo

"Not only is there more to life than basketball, there's a lot more to basketball than basketball"

- Phil Jackson

"If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot"

- Dean Smith

"If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special"

- Jim Valvano

"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible."

- Audrey Hepburn

"We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."

- Joseph Campbell

"Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not."

- Anna Neagle

"I don't recruit players who are nasty to their parents. I look for players who realize the world doesn't revolve around them"

- Pete Carroll