I just don’t deal with the negativity. I can’t get involved in that side of it. I don’t understand it, and you can’t let it take away from your life and what you are trying to do.
Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.
True motivation is not getting people to play to their potential. It’s getting people to play beyond their potential.
Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself.
Never let anyone out work you or out hustle you. Ever.
I ignore the jealous, I ignore the malicious, I ignore the ignorant and I ignore the paranoid.
Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past.
It’s better to have a good player with the basketball in late game situations than to have plays.
Long-term success is a direct result of what you achieve every day. Goals provide your daily routine.
Inferior guards play on the sidelines and great guards play in the middle. Isiah, Magic, Chris Paul, all get to the middle.
When you build bridges you can keep crossing them.
Avoid cynical and negative people like the plague. They are killers of potential.