I try to make it look easy, but the behind-the-scenes stuff is the challenge.
Interpretation
Success often comes from hard work that is not visible to others.
In this quote, Stephen Curry emphasizes that while he appears to perform effortlessly on the court, the reality is that significant hard work, preparation, and challenges occur behind the scenes to achieve that level of success. This highlights the importance of dedication and perseverance in achieving one's goals, often unnoticed by those who see only the end result.
In practice
In a motivational speech about perseverance and hard work.
I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He's given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball's taught me on and off the court. For the people that I've been able to meet through the game of basketball.
Sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or a crazy life story in order to be successful in this world. But the truth is you really don't.
You have so much fun playing games. We all love basketball, so we never want the season to end, 'cause then it's five months of sitting around and watching the playoffs.
I have fun out there on the court, smiling, laughing, trying to have good demeanor.
It's really annoying for me. That's not what I'm playing for, to be the face of the NBA or to be this or that or to take LeBron's throne or whatever.
I just feel so much more comfortable and confident every game I play.
Being named among the best is special and beautiful. But if there are no titles, nothing is won.
I did everything by the numbers. I had checklists upon checklists. If I wasn't ahead of everybody on my team, I didn't feel I was doing my job.
If my efforts have led to greater success than usual, this is due, I believe, to the fact that during my wanderings in the field of medicine, I have strayed onto paths where the gold was still lying by the wayside. It takes a little luck to be able to distinguish gold from dross, but that is all.
The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.
Success happened little by little for me. I tasted the flavor of fame in small doses: I started at 10 years old when I won a music contest; I was performing at birthday parties, company meetings.
We believe that almost all really good investment records will involve relatively little diversification. The basic idea that it was hard to find good investments and that you wanted to be in good investments, and therefore, you'd just find a few of them that you knew a lot about and concentrate on those seemed to me such an obviously good idea. And indeed, it's proven to be an obviously good idea. Yet 98% of the investing world doesn't follow it. That's been good for us.
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