Best Growth Mindset Quotes
I start every practice with inspiring quotes for my players. I think my favorite quotes are Growth Mindset Quotes that emphasize the process of learning. We gather around in a circle, I introduce the quote and they try to guess who said it. After they finish throwing around guesses I give them the answer and then we discuss the quote. Sports draw so many comparisons to life so our discussions often result in great life lessons. Below are the best Growth Mindset Quotes, that I love to use with my teams. I’ve divided them into categories that we often discuss at practice. Add some of your favorites in the comments below!!
Resilience
I’ve lost 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.
-Michael Jordan
I told myself, “Listen: Don’t panic, take your time, chip away, and work your way back in.
-Usain Bolt
If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes.
-John Wooden
There’s winning and there’s losing and in life both will happen. What is never acceptable to me is quitting.
-Magic Johnson
The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what’s best for you.
-John McEnroe
Process
If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail.
-John Wooden
You have to fall in love with the process of becoming great.
-Blake Griffin
Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months, and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character.
-T. Alan Armstrong
You have to believe in your process. You have to believe in the things you are doing to help your team win.
-Tom Brady
Effort
Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.
-Tim Notke
Nothing worth having is ever achieved without effort.
-Theodore Rosevelt
Winning is not everything but the effort to win is.
-Zig Zigler
I have a theory that if you give 100% all of the time somehow things will work out in the end.
-Larry Bird
You can’t always be the most talented or gifted person in the room, but you be the most competitive.
-Pat Summitt
I hope those Growth Mindset quotes get you started. Please add some of your favorites to the comments!!
