“You have to go with things that you understand. Businesses that you know.”

I don’t have to hear that criticism, that idotic criticism anymore.

If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do.

I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success.

These young guys are playing checkers. I’m out there playing chess.

Dear Basketball, From the moment I started rolling my dad’s tube socks and shooting imaginary game-winning shots. I fell in love with you.

I don’t set out to make a really hot shoe, I set out to make a product that is true to where I am.

It’s not a question of if we make the playoffs; we will. And when we get there, I have no fear of anyone.

People just don’t understand how obsessed I am with winning.

When you love something, you’ll always come back to it. You’ll always keep asking questions, and finding answers.

My brain cannot process failure. It will not process failure

I can’t relate to lazy people. We don’t speak the same language. I don’t understand you. I don’t want to understand you.

I’ve been watching Messi for some time now, and his ability to decide games and keep possession of the ball is amazing.

Everybody shut up. Let us work.

It doesn’t matter to me what place I get traded to. If I was traded someplace – I’d play anywhere.

If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.

You always have to be on edge. You always have to take every practice, every game, like it is your last.

It is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.

People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete – the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.

There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.

Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.

Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.