Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

The glory is being happy. The glory is not winning here or winning there. The glory is enjoying practicing every day, enjoying playing every day, enjoying being on the road with your teammates. That's where the glory is.

I've always believed that you can outwork and outthink your opponent. Just push, push, push.

Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back... play for her.

The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.

I've learned that something is always lost when you have everything.

I don't think there's any difficulty that can't be overcome. Nothing that can't be conquered.

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it—as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are.

Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement.

The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.

It's not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

I've learned that something as simple as a smile can change the whole atmosphere of a game.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.