It is my job to help the players react better.

Players today moan about the number of games, but when you’re young, you can’t play enough.

On the court, I want to try and get to the free-throw line a little more. And as a point guard, you can always get better at your decision-making and limiting your mistakes.

This is not a showman’s job. I will not step out of character.

Marathon running, like golf, is a game for players, not winners. That is why Callaway sells golf clubs and Nike sells running shoes. But running is unique in that the world’s best racers are on the same course, at the same time, as amateurs, who have as much chance of winning as your average weekend warrior would scoring a touchdown in the NFL.

It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up.

Never at any point did I feel like missing a training session. I was very keen on improving as a cricketer and as an international player.

We are going to transform Britain’s rail system from the worst in the world to the best. If you can do a few things like that, when the body gives out, you can say you’ve lived a good life.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

Nothing recedes like progress.

The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that’s their gift.

Whenever I go on a ride, I’m always thinking of what’s wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

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

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

I think sim racing helps. I have improved in areas and do it whenever I need to improve. You don’t feel G-force and those things are probably the biggest things, that and the fear factor which you feel when you drive. Therefore, when I go on to the track I’m better.

Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic – you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.

Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.

One thing I’ve always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they’ll tell you, ‚We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.‘

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.

I always knew who I was, and I always ran from my true purpose… I know what my job is. And I always ran from it.

Most of us enter adult life with great ambitions for how we will start our own ventures, but the harshness of life wears us down. We settle into some job and slowly give in to the illusion that our bosses care about us and our future, that they spend time thinking of our welfare.

You have young men of color in many communities who are more likely to end up in jail or in the criminal justice system than they are in a good job or in college. And, you know, part of my job, that I can do, I think, without any potential conflicts, is to get at those root causes.

Every season is a new challenge to me, and I always set out to improve in terms of games, goals, assists.

The future will be better tomorrow.

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn’t been the case for teaching.

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.

In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I’m against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.

Because my career is so important, I think I make a lot of – I wouldn’t call them sacrifices, but just concessions for my job. I love what I do, and I want to do it for a long time.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It’s our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man’s humanity to man.

All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

I was always interested – I mean, it’s kind of part of your job – I was always interested in the camera.

If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was ‚satisfactory,‘ I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language… one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

I saw 14 games in two and a half months at Churchill. It was what I really signed for. They were eyeing the championship and also playing the AFC Cup. So I am very thankful for Churchill, the coaching staff and the players.

Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.

But being on location and shooting, whether its in Puerto Rico or Atlanta, it always reminds me of how really cool my job can be. Interacting with the fans is one of the best parts of it.

The more you practice, the better you get, the more freedom you have to create.

When I was in college my girl got me a job at the doctor’s office she was working at. I was a file clerk. No disrespect but I don’t think a man can do that job. It takes so much meticulous and precise file-keeping.

I’m a workin‘ girl.

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

You look at another team’s style and how they do it, and you just want to understand how they’re doing it and see if you can learn something and maybe implement it into what your team does.

I’m bad at picking heroes.

At the start of the season, there are 16 teams in the top division looking behind them, making sure they avoid relegation. The fear starts in the boardroom, comes down to managers and through to players. The fans sense it.

Yes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

Substitute ‚damn‘ every time you’re inclined to write ‚very‘; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

Volleyball, I could be pretty good. After a few practices I could be that striker, or whatever they call it.

If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

I think we’re doing a dreadful job of educating.

It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.

There are good players, there are great players, and there are those few at the pinnacle – the Peles, Cruyffs and Maradonas.