One of the things you have to learn is that you don't have to have the ball all the time to be effective.
Interpretation
You don't need to be the center of attention to make a significant impact.
This quote emphasizes the idea that influence and effectiveness can come from collaboration and support rather than constantly being in the spotlight. Being part of a team or contributing in a lesser role can be equally, if not more, valuable than always taking charge.
In practice
During a team meeting, to encourage collaboration, you might say, 'Remember, one of the things you have to learn is that you don't have to have the ball all the time to be effective.'
I've accomplished so many things in basketball. I financially secured my kids' life and their future. I'm just happy. I'm just blessed. So anything that I'm not awarded doesn't matter because I've been rewarded enough in this lifetime.
Larry Brown molded me into an MVP and a Hall of Fame player.
Coach's voice will never leave my head as long as I live.
It was a blessing just to play one NBA basketball game.
If you're struggling with your shooting, then do other things on the basketball court. Get steals, get assists, get rebounds-do anything on the court to help the team win.
I don't put pressure on myself. I just compete.
It's good to test yourself and develop your talents and ambitions as fully as you can and achieve greater success; but I think success is the feeling you get from a job well done, and the key thing is to do the work.
Excellence is not an act, but a habit.
Such is the prestige of the Nobel Award and of this place where I stand that I am impelled, not to speak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession and in the great and good men who have practised it through the ages.
I've probably failed more often than anybody else in Silicon Valley. Those don't matter. I don't remember the failures. You remember the big successes.
If you're lucky enough to have been rewarded in life to the degree that I have, there comes a point at which you have to decide whether to become a slave to your net worth by devoting the rest of your life to increasing it or to let what you've accumulated begin to serve you.
My father taught me to always do more than you get paid for as an investment in your future.
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