“I am free to make anything I want as long as I think it will sell.”
“I am competing with what I am capable of.”
“Its better to shoot and miss, then to let time run out and wonder what if”
“I knew where I wanted to go, what kind of player I wanted to become and I focused on getting there.”
“There will be a player greater than me.”
“I want to wake up every day and do whatever comes in my mind, and not feel pressure or obligations to do anything else in my life.”
“Winning isn't always championships.”
“Authenticity is about being true to who you are, even when everyone around you wants you to be someone else”
“I don't know about flying, but sometimes it feels like I have these little wings on my feet.”
“No brain, no gain. Stay in school.”
“Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.”
“I have failed many times, but I have never gone into a game expecting myself to fail.”
“I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.”
“If it turns out that my best wasn't good enough, at least I won't look back and say that I was afraid to try; failure makes me work even harder.”
“Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”
“It's probably a twelve-day. He needs two days to wake up.”
“I make shoes for white suburban kids, not the poor black kids. That would be like opening a restaurant for people without stomachs.”
“If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”
“I play to win, whether during practice or a real game.”
“All I wanted to do was to improve, to keep getting better.”
“My challenge when I came back was to face the young talent, dissect their games, and show them maybe that they needed to learn more about the game than just the money aspect.”
“If I have an agenda or a goal, no one is going to deter me from what I want to do.”
“You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.”
“I know the signs of scaredness.”
“I'm a firm believer in goal setting. Step by step. I can't see any other way of accomplishing anything.”
