I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

I hate letting my teammates down. I know I’m not going to make every shot. Sometimes I try to make the right play, and if it results in a loss, I feel awful. I don’t feel awful because I have to answer questions about it. I feel awful in that locker room because I could have done something more to help my teammates win.

I will only hire someone to work directly for me if I would work for that person. It’s a pretty good test.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

I like to get out and get up the court, using my speed and aggressiveness toward the hoop.

When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there’s a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we’re going to see things through to the finish or quit.

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.

Fight with a happy heart.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

You have to stay faithful to what you’re working on.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‚I’m possible‘!

As is the case with most people in this game, I am driven by financial motives and creative motives; the question I had to answer is which motive I will give priority to?

Never lose a holy curiosity.

I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail – I shall succeed.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

The New Testament says nothing of Apostles who retired and took it easy.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

When you’re in prison, you want to know that you were thought about.

There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.

Basketball is booming, and it’s not just an Under Armour standpoint: it’s about the game itself. Kids going out and playing and being inspired by what we do on the court.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer’s you are an old fart. That’s how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.

Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

I can’t ever remember sitting around and saying, ‚gosh let’s hurry up and get these debates going, that’ll win it for me.‘ Nope.

I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything – diseases, spiders… and people getting tired of me.

Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they’re in another country.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

If there be no enemy there’s no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

At some point in time, you definitely have to go drama. Not to say that you’re going drama just because everybody else does it. You do it to challenge yourself. You do it because, naturally, in the profession of acting, you want to show growth. You want to say that you take the craft seriously.

The U. S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

If you get knocked down – setbacks in life, like applying for a job if they don’t hire you – keep trying, keep getting up, keep doing it.

All I do is work out. Oh my God! Half my life is spent in a gym somewhere, sweating.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Make sure of your commitment to Jesus Christ, and seek to follow Him every day. Don’t be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and His will first in everything you do.

Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It’s the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.

My success isn’t a result of arrogance – it’s a result of belief.

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

I would love to sign on to do a movie if it was the right role and if it was the right script, because I would be taking time away from music to tell a big grand story, and spend all of my time and pouring all of my emotions into being someone else. So for me to do that, it would have to be a story worth telling.

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

What keeps me going is goals.