The Madness and Gladness of March

ByDr. Dan

March is about basketball madness, busted brackets, championships, etc.  Time for some of my favorite basketball quotes, some of which have a lot to do with life itself.

  • Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you’re never wrong?– Pat Summitt
  • Bad shooters are always open – Pete Carril
  • Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise– Michael Jordan
  • The key is not the “will to win”… everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important– Bob Knight
  • Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don’t feel like doing them. – Julius Irving
  • They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they’d make up their minds. – Wilt Chamberlain
  • One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Basketball doesn’t build character, it reveals it. – James Naismith.
  • There is a point in every contest when sitting on the sidelines is not an option. – Dean Smith
  • We Don’t pray after a game … That’s too late. – Abe Lemons
  • We not going to win by passing the ball around.  Somebody’s got to shoot.”  Charles “Chink” Kivell, my High School Basketball Coach.
  • The streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in its streets. – Zachariah 8:5