Quotes On Learning

You can practice shooting 8 hours a day, but if your technique is wrong, then all you become is very good at shooting the wrong way. Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise.

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

But how many people lighted the path for me? That's the evolution of basketball. There's no way I could have played the way I played if I didn't watch David Thompson and guys prior to me. There's no way Kobe could have played the way he's played without watching me play. So, you know, that's the evolution of basketball. You cannot change that.

The key to success is failure.

In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I've been given the chance to meet all kinds of people, to travel and expand my financial capabilities, to get ideas and learn about life, to create a world apart from basketball.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

I have a certain curiosity for life that drives me and propels me forward.

I'm not an amazing cook, but I can follow a recipe.

We learned more from a 3-minute record than we ever learned in school.

The lesson I've learned the most often in life is that you're always going to know more in the future than you know now.

The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that's powerful.