19 Quotes by Pete Maravich

It's hard when your father's the coach. Sometimes you don't know where one leaves off and the other begins.

I got by on talent. That was my fatal mistake.

I played six to 10 hours a day, every day, 90 days during the summer, and I'd do incredible things. I would dribble blindfolded in the house. I would take my basketball to bed with me, I'd lay there after my mother kissed and tucked me in, and I'd shoot the ball up in the air and say, 'Finger tip control, backspin, follow through.

If I have a choice whether to do the show or throw a straight pass, and we're going to get the basket either way, I'm going to do the show.

Character never quits; and with patience and persistence; Dreams do come true!

If I have a choice whether to do the show or throw a straight pass, and we’re going to get the basket either way, I’m going to do the show.

I don’t want to play 10 years and then die of a heart attack when I’m 40.

They don’t pay you a million dollars for two-hand chest passes.

It’s hard when your father’s the coach. Sometimes you don’t know where one leaves off and the other begins.