Basketball Losing Quotes

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

- Allen Iverson

16

"It's what you get from games you lose that is extremely important."

- Pat Riley

7

"Everybody wants to take responsibility when you win, but when you fail, all these fingers are pointing"

- Mike Krzyzewski

5

"If you are not willing to work hard and establish discipline in your life, then all your dreams are merely pipe dreams"

- Rick Pitino

4

"Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes"

- Rick Pitino

4

"One player's selfish attitude can poison a locker room and make it hard, if not impossible, to establish team work"

- Dean Smith

3

"You can’t win unless you learn how to lose."

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

2

"Nothing is black-and-white, except for winning and losing, and maybe that’s why people gravitate to that so much."

- Steve Nash

2

"If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!"

- Charles Barkley

2

"The only way to prove you are a good sport is to lose."

- Ernie Banks

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