“No brain, no gain. Stay in school.”

Focus like a laser, not a flashlight.

Focus like a laser, not a flashlight.

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.

I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.

The brain is the last and grandest biological frontier, the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe. It contains hundreds of billions of cells interlinked through trillions of connections. The brain boggles the mind.

The brain, the mind, and all the things that happen inside it, it’s a very erogenous zone.

The truth is, the Science of Nature has been already too long made only a work of the Brain and the Fancy: It is now high time that it should return to the plainness and soundness of Observations on material and obvious things.

Don’t use your brain to play it, let your feelings guide your fingers.

Learn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then maybe you have a powder box and do not need.

The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.

When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your god like a soldier.