Basketball Hardwork Quotes

"When you're not practicing, someone else is getting better."

- Allen Iverson

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"Everything negative — pressure, challenges — are all an opportunity for me to rise."

- Kobe Bryant

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"If you're not talking, you’re not playing defense"

- Doc Rivers

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

- Michael Jordan

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"If you're going to have to beg them to play, it’s not going to work."

- Chuck Daly

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"Do you want to choose winning over standing out? It’s a choice every player on every championship team has to do"

- Doc Rivers

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"You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good."

- Jerry West

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"Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball."

- Larry Bird

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"As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people"

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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"I think mostly the system is about consistency"

- Gregg Popovich

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