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Gym
EAT BIG, LIFT BIG, GET BIG!

Basketball
Life
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
No pain, no gain!
Everything negative -- pressure, challenges -- are all an opportunity for Everything youve ever wanted is on
me to rise.
the other side of fear.
Kobe Bryant
George Addair
Rather the pain of discipline, than
Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for Never say the skys limit when there
the pain of regret.
the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.
are footprints on the moon
Bob Andrews
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Anonymous
When it starts to hurt, thats when
I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying.
Build your own dreams, or someone
the set starts.
Michael Jordan else will hire you to build theirs.
Farrah Gray
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
Magic Johnson hands are empty.
Anonymous
Go hard or go home.
Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer Life shrinks or expands in
sounds.
proportion to ones courage.
Larry Bird
Anais Nin
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
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
Lifes 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
Mike Krzyzewski mind on the present moment.
Buddha
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
John Wooden world.

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as hard to prove them wrong.

You want results, then train like it

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When my body shouts STOP, my

mind screams NEVER.

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When youre not training, someone

else is.

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The more you train, the more people

there are who are weaker than you

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The resistance that you fight

physically in the gym and the
resistance that you fight in life can
only build a strong character.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Crawling is acceptable. Falling is
acceptable. Puking is acceptable.
Tears are acceptable. Pain is
acceptable. Injury is acceptable.
Quitting is unacceptable
I don't train to failure, I train to
success

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Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins

championships.
Michael Jordan
The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of
each member is the team
Phil Jackson
Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don't want to play.
Sherman Alexie

The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it

gives me back fulfilment and peace.
Michael Jordan
Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role
on the team.
Scottie Pippen

Unkown
Life is ten percent what happens to
you and ninety percent how you
respond to it.
Lou Holtz
Love the life you live, and live the
life you love.
Bob Marley
It has been my philosophy of life
that difficulties vanish when faced
boldly.
Isaac Asimov
Life is a mirror and will reflect back
to the thinker what he thinks into it.
Ernest Holmes
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep
your balance you must keep moving.
Albert Einstein

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot
Either you run the day, or the day
make a team
runs you.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Jim Rohn

I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot when you

think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.
Michael Jordan
Just think about how you wanna
Your limits are somewhere up there, waiting for you to reach beyond
look. Ok, up with it!
infinity.
Arnold Henry
The human body is the best picture
Basketball is like photography, if you don't focus, all you have is the
of the human soul.
negative.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Dan Frisby
Pain is temporary. It may last a
Me shooting 40% at the foul line is just God's way to say nobody's

Life is too short to be living

somebody else's dream
Hugh Hefner
You only live once, but if you do it
right, once is enough
Mae West
Don't cry because it's over, smile
because it happened
Dr. Seuss
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I

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minute, or an hour, or a day, or a

year, but eventually it will subside
and something else will take its
place. If I quit, however, it lasts
forever.
Lance Armstrong
There are so many people out there
who will tell you that you cant.
What youve got to do is to turn
around and say watch me.
I don't stop when I am tired. I stop
when I am done.

perfect.

took the one less travelled by, And

Shaquille O'Neal that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost

To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And

once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay
reachable. Stay in touch. Dont isolate.
Michael Jordan
But that's the thing about basketball: you don't play games on paper.
Bill Simmons

You cant fall if you dont climb.

But theres no joy in living your
whole life on the ground.
Anonymous
Our lives begin to end the day we
become silent about things that
matter.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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
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