“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.”

I never thought a role model should be negative.

A coach is someone that sees beyond your limits and guides you to greatness!

The key to success is failure.

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.

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.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

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

The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them.

Everyone can rise above their circumstances and achieve success if they are dedicated to and passionate about what they do.

If it can be dreamed, it can be done.

I am competing with what I am capable of.

I didn’t mind basic training. It taught me that something that seems impossible at the start can be achieved.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.