70 quotes Gym Life 1 EAT BIG, LIFT BIG, GET BIG! What you are as a person is far more important that what you are as a There is only one way to avoid basketball player. criticism: do nothing, say nothing, John Wooden and be nothing. Aristotle 2 No pain, no gain! Everything negative -- pressure, challenges -- are all an opportunity for Everything you’ve ever wanted is on me to rise. the other side of fear. George Addair 3 Rather the pain of discipline, than the Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for Never say the sky’s limit when there pain of regret. the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody. are footprints on the moon Bob Andrews Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Anonymous 4 When it starts to hurt, that’s when the I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying. Build your own dreams, or someone set starts. else will hire you to build theirs. Farrah Gray 5 You are born weak and die weak, Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for A truly rich man is one whose what you are in between those two your teammates. children run into his arms when his periods of time is up to you hands are empty. Anonymous 6 Go hard or go home. Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer Life shrinks or expands in proportion sounds. to one’s courage. Anais Nin 7 Winners Train, Losers Complain. Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others Life must be lived forwards, but can make it happen. only be understood backwards. Michael Jordan Kierkegaard 8 I had the goal to be the best from day We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or Life is a shipwreck but we must not one. anything else. forget to sing in the lifeboats. John Wooden Voltaire 9 Life´s too short to be small A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get Do not dwell in the past, do not them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play. dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. Buddha 10 For every person who doubts you, Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there Be the change you wish to see in the tell you that you will fail, try twice as John Wooden world. hard to prove them wrong. Unkown 11 You want results, then train like it Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. Life is ten percent what happens to Michael Jordan you and ninety percent how you respond to it. Lou Holtz 12 When my body ‘shouts’ STOP, my The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of Love the life you live, and live the mind ‘screams’ NEVER. each member is the team life you love. Bob Marley 13 When you’re not training, someone Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don't want to play. It has been my philosophy of life that else is. Sherman Alexie difficulties vanish when faced boldly. Isaac Asimov 14 The more you train, the more people The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives Life is a mirror and will reflect back there are who are weaker than you me back fulfilment and peace. to the thinker what he thinks into it. Michael Jordan Ernest Holmes 15 The resistance that you fight Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep physically in the gym and the on the team. your balance you must keep moving. resistance that you fight in life can Albert Einstein only build a strong character. Arnold Schwarzenegger 16 Crawling is acceptable. Falling is One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot Either you run the day, or the day acceptable. Puking is acceptable. make a team runs you. Tears are acceptable. Pain is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Jim Rohn acceptable. Injury is acceptable. Quitting is unacceptable 17 I don't train to failure, I train to I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot… when you Life is too short to be living success think about the consequences you always think of a negative result. somebody else's dream Michael Jordan Hugh Hefner 18 Just think about how you wanna Your limits are somewhere up there, waiting for you to reach beyond You only live once, but if you do it look. Ok, up with it! infinity. right, once is enough Arnold Henry Mae West 19 The human body is the best picture of Basketball is like photography, if you don't focus, all you have is the Don't cry because it's over, smile the human soul. negative. because it happened Ludwig Wittgenstein Dan Frisby Dr. Seuss 20 Pain is temporary. It may last a Me shooting 40% at the foul line is just God's way to say nobody's Two roads diverged in a wood, and I minute, or an hour, or a day, or a perfect. took the one less travelled by, And year, but eventually it will subside Shaquille O'Neal that has made all the difference. and something else will take its Robert Frost place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. 21 There are so many people out there To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And You can’t fall if you don’t climb. who will tell you that you can’t. once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay But there’s no joy in living your What you’ve got to do is to turn reachable. Stay in touch. Don’t isolate. whole life on the ground. around and say – watch me. Michael Jordan Anonymous 22 I don't stop when I am tired. I stop But that's the thing about basketball: you don't play games on paper. Our lives begin to end the day we when I am done. Bill Simmons become silent about things that matter. Martin Luther King Jr. 23 Practice puts brains in your muscles. Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation. Life is what we make it, always has Sam Snead Michael Jordan been, always will be. Grandma Moses 24 Exercise is done against one's wishes I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let and maintained only because the anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win. alternative is worse. Michael Jordan George A. Sheehan