Quotes About Achievement

Growing up in college, in high school, I was the focal point.

I can probably go down in history as the best backup point guard ever in NBA history.

Scoring goals is scoring goals. From a striker's point of view, the aim is the same.

From a personal point of view, I wouldn't have been happy with one cap but would always have been happy with two. I never counted on getting to 80.

It is such a special thing. As a kid growing up, you look at the Ballon d'Or and how it is the top of the top from a personal point of view.

If you play bad, you can win the games, but you have to play good and get the three points.

A person who can go out and get 40 is going to get a lot more respect than somebody who goes out and holds somebody to two points. It's just the nature of the game. It doesn't bother me.

I don't judge my performance on how many assists I have or how many points I have.

As a player, you look where I've come from, averaging 'X' amount of points, to where I am now, an All-Star.

For me, it's about winning games. I'm trying to score more points than the other team. I don't really care how we do it.

I guarantee you, if you could give me 10 points in all those seventh games against the Boston Celtics, instead of Bill Russell having 11 rings, I could've at least had nine or eight.

We're all fascinated by the numbers, as we were about the 100 points.

Move the ball and score points. If we don't do that, I'm frustrated. Simply put.

I used to be a person who just peaked for the big events, not doing too many competitions, but now you've got to go round chasing all the points because if you're not taking them, someone else is.

It was important to score points today and I went for them with my guts.

Scoring a lot of points is great when you win, but when you lose it doesn't matter.

It's good when you're getting points - you're obviously feeling confident.

Nike came to me and said, 'We're interested in the decathlon and interested in seeing if we can help you get as close to 10,000 points as we can.'

The bottom line is we need to score points, and we need to score a lot of them.

Amazingly enough, athletic achievement is one of those things that seems larger than life at points. I think we all look to sport for inspirations.

One day, I'd like to get a quadruple double, points, assists, rebounds and blocks.

Performing King Charles in Mike Bartlett's astonishing play in London and New York has been one of the high points of my career.

You have to understand how lucky I feel. I was on 'Saturday. Night. Live.' I played with the Clash! On what planet would I look at anything in my life in any less-than-stellar way?

I'm self-made. I always wanted to make myself a better person, because I was not educated. But that was my dream - to have class.