Quotes About Encouragement

The last thing I want to do with my platform is bash another young black man who is getting money.

I like women's basketball.

I love 'Battles,' and I love what it's doing for people.

It was almost like I gravitated toward the people who were encouraging me to be like myself and to be creative and be different.

I'm always really grateful to Butragueno. He asks me how I am doing; he congratulates me when I score... I will always be grateful.

Want nothing but the best for your friends because when your friends are happy and successful, it's probably going to be easier for you to be happy.

If you're doing what you do because you love it, you have room to be happy for others. And that's a lot of fun, when you get down to it.

I don't take myself very seriously. I like to make people laugh. You know, it's like, if a woman can't be happy for another woman's work, they have to go work on that.

Be kind to yourself.

One of our goals is to encourage other families and parents that their marriage can be strong even if they have kids.

I think the best thing your parents can do for you is to let you be yourself.

I want to be a beacon to kids like me, the ones who grow up without hope.

I don't like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up.

When we go out in the world together, we don't get beat down.

I can't build myself by beating somebody down.

It's part of my role to push the guys around me to be the best they can be. I think that's part of being a leader.

One part of being a leader on a basketball team is you have to be there for yourself and others.

I really just like to see people being the best they can be.

What's the point of being the best in the world if you scratch and claw your way to the top, and you push everybody down instead of lifting everybody else up with you?

Because I would just tell everyone it was going to be great and just put that belief in them.

I want to encourage kids to speak up, to tell their stories. That is the only way people will know what we have to go through. Believe in yourself. Someone once told me being different isn't bad - different is just different!

My main message to kids is to have confidence and believe in yourself.

My mom was amazing. She believed in me and we were best friends.

I'm a strong believer in kid-empowerment.