Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.
Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success.
A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.
You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours.
If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.
Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat.
The hardest skill to acquire in this sport is the one where you compete all out, give it all you have, and you are still getting beat no matter what you do. When you have the killer instinct to fight through that, it is very special.
Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can be felt on an acre or two of ground, where a person can suffer and die and rise again on six miles of trails through a New York City park. Sport is a theater where sinner can turn saint and a common man become an uncommon hero, where the past and the future can fuse with the present. Sport is singularly able to give us peak experiences where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally become our own potential.
I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt.
The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.
Make sure your worst enemy doesn't live between your two ears.
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.
Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back... play for her.
Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
Champions keep playing until they get it right.
Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.
What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.
There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out.
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've missed 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.
There is no such thing as life in-between.
You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave - win or lose.
One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
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