“No matter the circumstances that you may be going through, just push through it.”

Don’t walk through life just playing football. Don’t walk through life just being an athlete. Athletics will fade. Character and integrity and really making an impact on someone’s life, that’s the ultimate vision, that’s the ultimate goal – bottom line.

There’s some things you can cover up. And there’s some things you can’t.

In any war who pulls their general out? No one.

I wasn’t the biggest, the fastest, the strongest, and then I bought into something called work ethic.

You take five fingers. Individually, I can pin any one of them, but if I pin them together (makes a fist), it’s damn near impossible to turn this around.

I don’t know a man on this Earth who can outwork me.

I prepare so no one can take what is mine, no one can replace my mind, my heart.

Everything I got, I’m willing to sacrifice.

I’ve got kids that are always watching and I taught them to always finish something you started.

The only thing that could pull me away, was hard work.

I figured something out. And it is no secret what I figured out. Whatever the majority of people were doing, I found myself doing the opposite. I wanted to chase something great.

If tomorrow wasn’t promised, what would you give for today?

You don’t have to win it, just don’t lose it.

You have to be honest about who you are.

Some of these kids are spending more time with the coaches than they are with their parents. The coach is supposed to be raising these kids, not belittling them and talking to them like the world is coming to an end.

One of the things I’ve always said is that if you’re given the ability to coach kids, then you’re really given the ability to be a father or parent of some sort.

There’s a softer and harder person in everyone, depending on the time.

Hard times fall upon everybody. Whatever it is, we’re going to get out of it.

I ball all through the winter and I stunt all through the summer.

Your best success comes after your greatest disappointment.

Character is the virtue of hard times.

Falling down ain’t falling down, If you don’t cry when you hit the floor, It’s called the past cause I’m getting past, And I ain’t nothing like I was before, You ought to see me now.

I told myself – You’ve got this, Even though I don’t have it at all.

Growing up in the streets of Bed-Stuy, it was hard, yo.