“Obstacles don’t have to stop you.”

You don’t show up on game day and expect to be great. Greatness happens in practice. You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

Great players never look in the mirror and think I’m a great basketball player. You ask yourself, Am I the best player I can be?

Don’t be like me. Be better than me. That’s the goal.

Sometimes a winner is just a dreamer who never gave up.

My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.

Being afraid on the court, means you’re not confident of your skills.

The game has its ups and downs, but you can never lose focus of your individual goals and you can’t let yourself be beat because of lack of effort.

You always have to focus in life on what you want to achieve.

Every time I feel tired while I am exercising and training, I close my eyes to see that picture, to see that list with my name. This usually motivates me to work again.

I don’t go out and just try to score. I score because there is an opportunity to score.

I want to wake up every day and do whatever comes in my mind, and not feel pressure or obligations to do anything else in my life.

Any fear is an illusion. You think something is standing in your way, but nothing is really there. What is there is an opportunity to do your best and gain some success.

I am competing with what I am capable of.

Nothing of value comes without being earned.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.

Every day, stand guard at the door of your mind.

You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.

You have to leave your comfort zone.

Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn’t trying.

In the face of pain there are no heroes.