It is better to anticipate than to react.

Discipline is knowing what to do. Knowing when to do it. Doing it to the best of your abilities. Doing it that way every single time.

The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.

Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.

If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.

In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them

Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.

I don't believe in luck, I believe in preparation.

You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.

Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.

We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.

Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defea

Men, she decided, were a strange, thick-skulled, ball-kicking species no one on earth could have a sensible conversation with.

We’re a different sort of thief here, Lamora. Deception and misdirection are our tools. We don’t believe in hard work when a false face and a good line of bullshit can do so much more.

Parents. . . are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfil the promise of their early years.

As intuition grows, the need to make problems and see complications starts to dwindle.

There can be no place for self entirely

Every single American has a voice and ... it ought to be heard in the halls of power every day.

I'm creating the kind of games that I like right now. I'm not being held back by technology.

There is no one right now in my judgment that can unite the Black electorate in such a way to present our agenda to a nominee to have them forthrightly address our concerns.

One gets wrapped up in reacting to ones own reputation, which can be a kind of trap.