Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
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Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.
Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
Remember this, the choices you make in life, make you.
It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
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.
If you want to win, do the ordinary things better than anyone else does them day in and day out.
Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I've been blessed.
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
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