You have so much fun playing games. We all love basketball, so we never want the season to end, 'cause then it's five months of sitting around and watching the playoffs.
Interpretation
The joy of playing basketball brings happiness and anticipation, making the off-season difficult to bear.
In this quote, Stephen Curry expresses the deep enjoyment and passion for playing basketball, emphasizing how the love for the game creates a longing for the season to continue. He highlights the contrast between the excitement of playing and the downtime during the off-season, illustrating how much fun and fulfillment sports can bring to individuals and communities.
In practice
Use this quote at a sports team gathering to inspire team spirit.
I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He's given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball's taught me on and off the court. For the people that I've been able to meet through the game of basketball.
Sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or a crazy life story in order to be successful in this world. But the truth is you really don't.
I try to make it look easy, but the behind-the-scenes stuff is the challenge.
I have fun out there on the court, smiling, laughing, trying to have good demeanor.
It's really annoying for me. That's not what I'm playing for, to be the face of the NBA or to be this or that or to take LeBron's throne or whatever.
I just feel so much more comfortable and confident every game I play.
I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.
The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
What do I want to take home from my summer vacation? Time. The wonderful luxury of being at rest. The days when you shut down the mental machinery that keeps life on track and let life simply wander. The days when you stop planning, analyzing, thinking and just are. Summer is my period of grace.
In my 20s I was such a serious, boring-looking person. I would never do my nails. I never even danced. But I was taught by the women. They had gone through hell, but they would dance and sing. I came to realise I can't argue for a happy world if I am not happy myself.
Happiness is the ability to move forward, knowing the future will be better than the past.
There is no such thing as a perfectly happy or perfectly unhappy man in the world. One has more happiness in his life and another more unhappiness, and the same circumstance may produce widely different effects on individuals of different temperaments.
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