Quotes On Purpose

I'm not out there sweating for three hours every day just to find out what it feels like to sweat.

When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game.

It's a heavy duty to try to do everything and please everybody. My job was to go out there and play the game of basketball as best I can and provide entertainment for everyone who wanted to watch basketball. Obviously, people may not agree with that; again, I can't live with what everyone's impression of what I should or what I shouldn't do.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty and joy to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Worse than being blind would be to see and have no vision.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but no vision.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

I definitely believe that you are drawn to certain things for inexplicable reasons, but in a very powerful way.

If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down.