Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.
The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits.
In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure.
Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.
Magic Johnson, former basketball player, may run for mayor of L.A. in the next election. Remember the good 'ol days when only qualified people ran for office like actors and professional wrestlers.
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.
I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place.
Our offense is like the pythagorean theorem: There is no answer!
And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.
This is a tough game. There are times when you've got to play hurt, when you've got to block out the pain.
I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing.
Being here feels like I'm out of prison. This is the right place, the right time, the right team.
Someday I might have to put down a basketball and have a regular 9-to-5 like everybody else.
I put a lot into it, and when I am done playing, I plan on going undercover and then being the sheriff or chief of police somewhere, either Miami or Orlando, I don't know yet.
All these boundaries - Africa, Asia, Malaysia, America - are set by men. But you don't have to look at boundaries when you are looking at a man - at the character of a man. The question is: What do you stand for? Are you a follower, or are you a leader?
The only way to get people to like working hard is to motivate them. Today, people must understand why they're working hard. Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different.
Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing!
Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is.
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