Pete Maravich Quotes

Basketball was every day of my life. Wake up with a ball - sometimes I'd sleep with it because someone told me that was better for you.

I worked every day - Christmas Eve, birthdays - trying to become a great basketball player. Everywhere I went, I had a basketball.

My focus is basketball, and that's it.

What's really the driver of talent is not raw ability. It's not even just experience. It's what's called 'deliberate practice,' which is to say, if you do something a lot, you get really good at it.

My job is to get out there and try to become the best basketball player I can be.

Since I was like 6 or 7, I've always had a basketball season.

It's just basketball. It's what I do. I've been doing this since I was 4.

To play the game at this level, I've got to continue to get better. I've got to stay consistent, still work on my ballhandling and I've got to become a great defender.

Whenever I'm out on the basketball court, I lace up and just hoop. Whether it's in summertime, at practice, in the games, playoffs, every time I step out on the basketball court, I approach it the same way.

The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

I take my life and put it on the football field, and I take the football field and put it in my life.

If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed?

To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis.

The way I look at tricks is if I really have my mind set on one, I'm going to learn it until I can do it 10 or 20 times in a row. I want to perfect it.

I practice every day. I've been doing it since I was eight.

It's very easy to walk on a wire if you spend a whole lifetime practicing for it.

I just want kids all over the world to know you have to practice to be any good in this game; it's too hard.

I'm a basketball guy. No sitcom guy. I don't care about all that jazz. I care about basketball. It's not me. And I stayed with what I did, and I'm very proud that I did that because I make a great living and I'm lucky and I get to be involved with the thing I truly love, and that's the game of basketball.

When I was young, I liked to spend hours and hours on the practice court.

Playing basketball taught me the value of determination and teamwork.

For me, basketball was the way I was able to hone my leadership skills during the heat of competition.

I succeeded at venture capital because, for years, I rarely thought about or spent time on anything else. Anything less than that unmitigated full commitment leaves me feeling frustrated and ineffective.

I think I can do everything on the basketball floor. I just gotta be consistent in what I do.

I knew I was going to be a football player; I just didn't know how. It was the only thing I was doing, the only thing that I knew. Always training, training, training, training.

I just feel like there's a lot of things more important than just basketball, and I love basketball. It's what I want to do for the longest time possible. It's what I eat, it's what I sleep about, it's what I breathe, it's in my lifestyle. I just really feel like there's more important things than just putting the ball in the hoop.