Quotes About Wisdom

The great players always have that one older player, that one vet they competed against who was older.

I was a veteran, before I was a teenager.

I built my name on fighting so hard - I'll always do that - but I'm also trying to become more of a veteran, to be be calm and calculated and not always trying to bowl people over.

I'm OK being the veteran, but I'm still just a kid.

I think the one thing I have learned the most from all the veteran guys is kinda like not to dwell on a loss or a bad day.

Karl Malone used a lot of veteran stuff that I thought was cool. Charles Barkley taught me a lot when I played against him. How he would use his body or use his dribble to get people in there and all that stuff. Veteran moves.

I remember when I was a younger cat, I always thought the veteran guys talked too much.

I sit on the bench, and I watch even my teammates swing, so you can learn from them when they make a bad swing or good swing. I like to watch from the rookie to the veteran player, and that way you can see the difference and learn something from them.

I had a lot of veteran guys who taught me things.

When I started in the business, getting in the ring, most nights I'd look across at a 15-20 year veteran. And every night, he would take me to school.

You don't really realize when you become a 'veteran' - it just sort of happens.

The big element I think that I bring is that I am a veteran coach.

In a fire, you have to be thoughtful; you have to have a certain kind of intuitive smarts that the veterans have. I'm not there yet, despite the Stanford degree.

As veterans we should be smarter about how we talk about things.

The popular songs that were written in the 1920s and '30s, '40s and early '50s were written by veterans - mostly men who'd had experience in life. How can you write a lyric if you haven't really lived life?

A lot of these teams really forget that part of success comes with having veteran leadership. You see a lot of teams forget that and start letting go of these old veterans. They don't realize how important it is to have a veteran voice in your locker room or on the bench. It's important to have guys who have been there before.

For some strange reason a lot of people in my age demographic don't want to listen to veterans of this sport.

Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.

Creating the album 'VIBES' has been the biggest life lesson I have ever learned.

My political career has enriched my knowledge about staying away from negative vibes.

Hindsight is the historian's necessary vice.

Vice cannot be removed completely, nor is it right that it should be removed.

Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.

Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.