You can practice shooting eight hours a day, but if your technique is wrong, then all you become is very good at shooting the wrong way. Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise.

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Anything can happen if you are willing to put in the work and remain open to the possibility. Dreams are realized by effort, determination, passion and staying connected to that sense of who you are.

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Sometimes you need to get hit in the head to realize that you're in a fight.

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To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.

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I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

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If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

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If you are confident you have done everything possible to prepare yourself, then there is nothing to fear.

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The best evaluation I can make of a player is to look in his eyes and see how scared they are.

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Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.

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It's not about the shoes, it's what you do in them.

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