Success Is A Result Of

After I Played Him For The First Time, I Said 'let's See. He's Four Or Five Inches Taller. He's 40 Or 50 Pounds Heavier. His Vertical Leap Is At Least As Good As Mine. He Can Get Up And Down The Floor As Well As I Can. And He's Smart. The Real Problem With All This Is I Have To Show Up.

Concentration And Mental Toughness Are The Margins Of Victory.

We Learn To Make A Shell For Ourselves When We Are Young And Then Spend The Rest Of Our Lives Hoping For Someone To Reach Inside And Touch Us. Just Touch Us—anything More Than That Would Be Too Much For Us To Bear.

I Hope I Epitomize The American Dream. For I Came Against Long Odds, From The Ghetto To The Very Top Of My Profession. I Was Not Immediately Good At Basketball. It Did Not Come Easy. It Came As The Result Of A Lot Of Hard Work And Self-sacrifice. The Rewards, Where They Worth It? One Thousand Times Over.

The Morale And The Camaraderie That We Had For One Another Earlier In The Year Is Starting To Come Under Duress Because Of All The Losses. Some Of The Guys Are Feeling The Pressure Now From The Last Year When They Were Not Successful.