The biggest challenge was becoming a leader and taking our team to the highest level. Feeling the personal responsibility to take the team to the next level. Overcoming fear of inadequacy and never getting down on yourself or doubting who you are.
Preparation is everything.
When all else fails, trust God.
Your peers will respect you for your integrity and character, not your possessions.
You have to raise your game, you have to be ready to compete, and you've just got to give Hakeem credit. He was great. He really was great.
My dad was enlisted in the Navy; my mother was a nurse. It just was never a thought process. It was just go to the best school you can go to, do the best you possibly can do, and be the best person you can possibly be, and I think our faith had a lot to do with that.
This is sports. In sports, you win and you lose. That's the nature of sports. You can't get away from that part of it. And if you get too hung up on the losing part, then you miss the boat. The competition part, a game like that, is why you play sports. That is as good as it gets.
I was probably a naive youth, but I saw that I could make things happen.
If you forget your history, you forget who you are.
A well-rounded education has always been an issue close to my heart.
It's the playoffs. There's no room for okay.
My dad was in the Navy, and I was raised with a strong commitment to service.
Keep working and saving and striving for a better future for your children, and for their children, even if you won't be around to see it pay off.
Shaq was a great physical specimen. I mean, 7 foot, 350 pounds. There wasn't anybody like him.
All this stuff doesn't happen to you for your own sake. It doesn't happen to you so you can fill your shelves with trophies or line your pockets with cash; it happens so you can have a positive influence and encourage other people.
I know I will leave my work unfinished. I just hope I planted enough seeds in my children and grandchildren that they will continue.
Tanzania sells about 50 million pounds of coffee a year to coffee-shop chains such as Starbucks and Peet's. But Sweet Unity is the only finished, branded product from the East African country to be sold directly in the U.S.
It's an interesting juxtaposition, being student body president and leading others and learning how to effectively help people on the team in a way that's not as direct.
The individual stats, that stuff is fun, but it doesn't last. Somebody else is gonna come along and break your records. But the memories that you take are forever.
It was difficult to step away. I've always been an athlete. And to give that up was extremely daunting. The looming factor of brain damage, to me, was too strong.
