“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.”

If you are confident you have done everything possible to prepare yourself, then there is nothing to fear.

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

Excellence isn’t a one-week or one-year ideal. It’s a constant.

The best come from the worst.

I’m all about challenges and seeing if I can go out and see if I can achieve something. If at the end of the day I do it, great. If I don’t, I can live with myself.

To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don’t isolate.

The reason I became such a successful athlete was my mind was saying that no matter who you put up against me, I am better, I am the best.

I play to win, whether during practice or a real game.

Earn your leadership every day.

All I wanted to do was to improve, to keep getting better.

The best evaluation I can make of a player is to look in his eyes and see how scared they are.

A leader can’t make excuses. There has to be quality in everything you do. Off the court, on the court, in the classroom.

I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

Work ethics eliminates fear.

In any investment, you expect to have fun and make money.

Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Unexpected things do happen in perfect timing.

We tend to get what we expect.

Great expectations are better than a poor possession.

I expect the best and with God’s help will attain the best.

Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.

How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.

Those who’ll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Seek for good, but expect evil.