“A leader puts himself last then he sticks out.”

If there’s something in your life that you know needs changing, make sure you change it before God’s got to change it. Because if God’s got to change it, you ain’t going to like it.

The hardest thing to do is work hard when no one is watching.

Let me explain my job very simply: My job is to line up five, seven, 10 yards in front of a man and run into him at full speed.

Never be comfortable with just good enough.

Man doesn’t dictate what you do or how you do it. If you believe in God, believe in God; have your faith in him. That’s where my faith lies.

Every day of my life, I’m trying to find a different way to get better.

I honor God that much in the way I play. That’s why I never believe in getting tired. I don’t even know what that word means.

I don’t want to be liked. I want to be respected. Because if you like me you can throw me away too quick. If you respect me, you may not even like what I was wearing, but you’ll say, “I respect that.”

Don’t let your alarm clock, be the only reason you wake up.

When something goes wrong, smile, cause there’s always a next play.

When you try to help people become a better person, you’re going to have to find out what’s really going in their world.

Some people take certain things and they try to forget what that pain felt like. I don’t. I take that same pain and I chase it every time I walk in a weight room.

Daddy wasn’t there for me, so I had to grind every day.

My game is me. I didn’t try to pattern my game after nobody.

Will you be remembered, how would you be remembered, why wouldn’t you fight for the greatest achievement ever?

Who knows what the future holds? It’s all on parenting, one way or another. I don’t care what level it is, it comes back to people learning how to deal with people.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.

A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.

Lead by example and the rest will follow.

Your leadership is always moving in the direction of your strongest thought.

I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They’re always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you’re doing something right.

Great businesses come from great leadership, great leadership comes from great flexibility and great flexibility comes from great control. great control will give you a great life. 

A leader, once convinced a particular course of action is the right one, must have the determination to stick with it and be undaunted when the going gets tough.