I expected to be a pretty good NBA point guard and hopefully win a championship. But MVP and all this stuff? Not really.
Interpretation
Stephen Curry highlights the unexpected nature of his success, emphasizing that his initial goal was simply to excel as a player.
In this quote, Stephen Curry expresses a humble outlook on his career achievements. He originally set out with the simple aim of being a competent NBA point guard who could help his team win a championship. However, he reflects on how he has exceeded those expectations by earning accolades like MVP, which he didn't foresee. This signifies the unpredictability of success and the importance of grounding oneself in one's initial goals, regardless of how far one may eventually go.
In practice
This quote can be used in a motivational speech to emphasize humility in the face of success.
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 try to make it look easy, but the behind-the-scenes stuff is the challenge.
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 think my constant fiddling and meddling with the status quo may have been one of my biggest contributions to the later success of Wal-Mart.
Nobody ever thinks that the work they're going to do could ever be bigger than the one they do before, especially if you're lucky enough like I had to have such a huge thing as 'Phantom' was.
We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before arriving.
Those who are victorious plan effectively and change decisively. They are like a great river that maintains its course but adjusts its flow...they have form but are formless. They are skilled in both planning and adapting and need not fear the result of a thousand battles: for they win in advance, defeating those that have already lost.
You can't run a business without taking risks. The brave may not live forever - but the cautious do not live at all!
Work is life for me, it is the only point of life - and with it there is almost religious belief that service is everything.
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