This is a silly place. Half the world has no clean water. The other half has so much that they pooh in it.
Push yourself again and again. Don’t give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
It doesn’t matter who scores the points, it’s who can get the ball to the scorer.
Once you are labeled ‘the best’ you want to stay up there, and you can’t do it by loafing around.
A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
Michael Jordan is God disguised as a basketball player.
I don’t think that once you get to one level, you can relax. You’ve got to keep pushing.
There are many times when you are better off practicing than playing; but most people just don’t understand that.
Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball. I didn’t play against the toughest competition in high school, but one reason I was able to do well in college was that I mastered the fundamentals. You’ve got to have them down before you can even think about playing.
I wasn’t real quick, and I wasn’t real strong. Some guys will just take off and it’s like, whoa. So I beat them with my mind and my fundamentals.
I hate to lose more than I like to win.
I don’t know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody – somewhere – was practicing more than me.
First master the fundamentals.
Eminem. My son was listening to that and I was like, “What is that junk?” Then I started listening and I thought, You know, that kid is pretty good. It’s the storytelling.
My coach told me, “Larry, no matter how much you work at it, there’s always someone out there who’s working just a little harder – if you take 150 practice shots, he’s taking 200.” And that drove me.
Don’t let winning make you soft. Don’t let losing make you quit. Don’t let your teammates down in any situation.