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I really enjoy surfing a lot. It's an awesome sport. With surfing there are no mind games versus Peyton Manning, or versus anyone else. It's not me trying to throw a certain shot put further - or to put a ball in a hoop, it's just me against mother nature.
Oct 1, 2025
Whirlyball is only the most awesome sport on the planet! It's like bumper cars plus lacrosse meets basketball.
Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.
The time when there is no one there to feel sorry for you or to cheer for you is when a player is made.
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'
Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.
What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.
The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.
When I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I got things exactly correct. My dream was to become a pro.
Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.
You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.
You play with your soul as well as your body.
The principle is competing against yourself.
Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
Champions keep playing until they get it right.
A trophy carries dust. Memories last forever.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.
Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.
During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at-bats a season. That means I played 7 years without ever hitting the ball.
If you can't outplay them, outwork them.
Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do...but I think you have to.
I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.
The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.
Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle, and giving 110 percent all the time.
It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.
I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
It's not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters.
Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.
If you are afraid of failure, you don't deserve success.
The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose.
Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.
Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.