text: does anyone know any motivational basketball quotes or poems? i always write out some type of quote or poem about basketball to get some of my girls on the team motivated and they seem to work. so, if you know any good ones, let me know! "i have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. i have lost almost 300 games. on 26 occasions i have been entrusted to take the game winning shot... and i missed. i have failed over and over and over again in my life. and that's precisely why i succeed''.