Archive for the “Inspirational” Category

Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up.  ~ Bill Vaughn

Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals.~ James Naismith

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.  ~ Red Auerbach

Basketball is like photography, if you don’t focus, all you have is the negative.~ Dan Frisby

Basketball is the MTV of sports.~ Sara Levinson

Fans never fall asleep at our games, because they’re afraid they might get hit by a pass. ~ George Raveling

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best.~ Tim Duncan

If all I’m remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I’ve done a bad job with the rest of my life. ~ Isiah Thomas

If I weren’t earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.~ Charles Barkley

If you are going to take it to the bank, then you better cash it in.~  Shannon Fish

If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball. ~ Phil Jackson

I’m tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.~ Shaquille O’Neal

I always tried to make clear that basketball is not the ultimate. It is of small importance in comparison to the total life we live. There is only one kind of life that truly wins, and that is the one that places faith in the hands of the Savior. Until that is done, we are on an aimless course that runs in circles and goes nowhere.~ John Wooden

I hate it.  It looks like a stickup at 7-Eleven.  Five guys standing there with their hands in the air.  ~Norm Sloan

I haven’t been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years.  Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either.  ~Dave Barry

I look at the NBA as a football game without the helmet.  ~Tom Tolbert

It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.~ John Wooden

Nothing there but basketball, a game which won’t be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo.  ~Ogden Nash

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

The idea is not to block every shot.  The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot. ~ Bill Russell

The invention of basketball was not an accident.  It was developed to meet a need.  Those boys simply would not play “Drop the Handkerchief.” ~ James Naismith

The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not. ~ Charles Barkley

The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy. ~ Jerry Tarkanian

These are my new shoes.  They’re good shoes.  They won’t make you rich like me, they won’t make you rebound like me, they definitely won’t make you handsome like me.  They’ll only make you have shoes like me.  That’s it.  ~ Basketbat Quotes

They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me.Earvin Johnson

They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they’d make up their minds.~ Wilt Chamberlain

Sometimes a player’s greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.~ Scottie Pippen

We have a great bunch of outside shooters.  Unfortunately, all our games are played indoors. ~ Weldon Drew

What is so fascinating about sitting around watching a bunch of pituitary cases stuff a ball through a hoop? ~ Woody Allen

When I dunk, I put something on it.  I want the ball to hit the floor before I do. ~ Darryl Dawkins

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

You don’t play against opponents.  You play against the game of basketball. ~ Bobby Knight

I will act now.

I will act now.

Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday

Until the words become as much a habit as my breathing

And the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids.

With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success.

I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again.

I will walk where failures fear to walk.

I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have.

Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy.

I am not lazy.

Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed.

I am not a failure.

I will act now.

Success will not wait.

If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever.

This is the time.

This is the place.

I am the person.

~Og Mandino

Begin to weave and God will give the thread.

Do good and throw it into the sea — if it is not appreciated by an ungrateful man, it will be appreciated by God.

Don’t try to get blood from a locust; God didn’t put it in there.

God’s goal will be achieved when everyone is content with himself.

God bless him who pays visits — short visits.

God delays but doesn’t forget.

God doesn’t give more beards than soap.

God does not love those who have not suffered.

God does not pay every Saturday.

God does not pay weekly, but He pays at the end.

God gave us hands but He doesn’t build bridges with them.

God gives, but he doesn’t sell.

God gives all birds their food but does not drop it into their nests.

God gives but does not lock the gate.

God gives every bird his worm, but he does not throw it into the nest.

God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.

God gives the nuts, but He does not crack them.

God grant us no neighbor with two eyes.

God who made the mouth will provide the food.

God has spared the naked man from washing his clothes with soap.

God heals, but the doctor gets paid.

God is a busy worker but loves to be helped.

God is always where we don’t look for him.

God is good, but not crazy.

God is not without sins: He created the world.

God knows what will happen to women who drink wine, girls that speak old languages, and suns that set too early.

God pardons the ignorant.

God postpones, he does not overlook.

God promises a safe landing but not a calm passage.

God will help a seaman in a storm but the pilot must still remain at the wheel.

God writes straight even on wavy lines.

Help yourself and God will help you.

He who doesn’t speak will get no help from God.

He who leaves his people will be left by God.

He who wants what God wants of him will lead a free and happy life.

If God were not forgiving, heaven would be empty.

If it were God’s will, you could shoot with a broom too.

If the devil is your godfather you will be welcome in hell.

If you light one candle for God, then you must light two for the devil.

If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.

Make do with bread and butter until God can bring you jam.

Man does what he can, God does what he will.

Once you have found your rhythm, you will then know your God.

Pray for revenge, and God will turn a deaf ear.

Some men wonder over God’s values, others over the cut of a garment.

Stand away from dwarfs, for it’s God who hit them on the head.

The God who gave us teeth will also give us bread.

The farmer hopes for rain, the walker hopes for sunshine, and the gods hesitate.

The opportunity that God sends does not wake up him who is asleep.

The plant God favors will grow even without rain.

True poverty does not come from God.

When God shuts one door, He opens another.

Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Why should I shave when God doesn’t?

When the thief has stolen from a thief, God laughs in heaven.

If I feel depressed I will sing.

If I feel sad I will laugh.

If I feel ill I will double my labor.

If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.

If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.

If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.

If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.

If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.

If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.

Today I will be the master of my emotions.

~ Og Mandino

Tags: emotions, feelings, thoughts

When two share an umbrella, both of them get wet.

It’s no use carrying an umbrella if your shoes are leaking.~ Irish Proverb

Going around under an umbrella interferes with one’s looking up at the sky.

Weather is a great metaphor for life - sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s bad, and there’s nothing much you can do about it but carry an umbrella.

Let a smile be your umbrella, and you’ll end up with a face full of rain.

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There is no woman who sleeps so deeply that the sound of a guitar won’t bring her to the window. ~ Spanish Proverb

They say “Move your neck according to the music.” ~ Proverb

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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

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Say not, “I have found the truth,” but rather, “I have found a truth.”

Say not, “I have found the path of the soul.”  Say rather, “I have met the soul walking upon my path.”

For the soul walks upon all paths.

The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed.

The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.

~Kahlil Gibran                                       More quotes and sayings about the soul here

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