“Heart is what separates the good from the great.”

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Failure gave me strength. Pain was my motivation.

The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.

I believe greatness is an evolutionary process that changes and evolves era to era.

I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me. Failure always made me try harder next time.

It doesn’t matter if you win as long as you give everything in your heart.

Patience. I will become what I know I am.

To learn to succeed, you must first learn to fail.

If I have an agenda or a goal, no one is going to deter me from what I want to do.

Failure makes me work even harder.

There is no “I” in team but there is in win.

Once I made a decision, I never thought about it again.

It doesn’t matter if you fall down, it’s whether you get back up.

My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.

Learning is a gift, even when pain is your teacher!

There are plenty of teams in every sport that have great players and never win titles.