Quotes About Skills

There's not a lot of guys in this league who are tough for me to guard. It's a short list.

When you move into becoming more of a shooting guard, you get more catch-and-shoot three's, lot of pin-downs and things like that where you shoot the three a lot more.

Obviously teams know, and everyone in the league knows how much I like to touch the paint. And with them having to guard my 3-point shot, it'll only make it easier for me to touch the paint.

Obviously people have guarded me a lot different because of me being able to make shots.

Most coaches are mostly small guards because they think guards have more knowledge.

The point guards that I like are the ones that are playing like point guards.

Point guards love it when a guy can pick and pop and make a shot and make threes.

I just love playing with point guards with high Iqs.

Little Slater Martin, I think, was one of the best point guards ever, and we had Whitey Skoog, a great shooter, at the other guard.

There are a lot of great point guards in the NBA.

I can pop, I can roll, I can do different things. And sometimes guards are not used to having a big man who can do all those things.

I believe that anyone with a bit of guidance can act.

We in the media have been guilty about not doing a better job of making people understand how really simple cooking is. We've made everyone feel like they have to be a chef.

I've dealt with a lot of guns over my career, so I'm getting better and better with firearms.

I fight with glory and I fight with guts and I fight with skills.

Some guys are gym fighters, some guys are better in the ring.

My mother loved fashion. She was a beauty and had enough sewing skills that she could re-create the looks in magazines. She also was enormously charismatic.

West Ham have a great academy.

Because competence-building represents more cumulative learning than great leaps of inventiveness, it is difficult to "time compress" competence-building.

FIGURE 2-1 US employment in occupations based on importance of originality to job performance

Contrary to conventional wisdom, what makes a job low skilled is not the nature of the work it entails, or the credentials required, but whether or not the people performing the task have the opportunity to grow their capabilities and tackle novel problems. The most important lesson to be gleaned from post-bureaucratic pioneers is that it's possible to radically upskill what would otherwise be regarded as low-skilled jobs

In the future, people who are not coaches will not be promoted. — JACK WELCH, former chairman and CEO of General Electric

From this day forward, Flight Control will be known by two words: 'Tough and Competent.' Tough means we are forever accountable for what we do or what we fail to do. We will never again compromise our responsibilities. Every time we walk into Mission Control we will know what we stand for. "Competent means we will never take anything for granted. We will never be found short in our knowledge and in our skills. Mission Control will be perfect.

There are men—I have known a good many—who work all their lives for the same Fortune 500 company. They have families to support, and no skills that will permit them to leave and support their families by other means in another place. Their work is of little value, because few, if any, assignments of value come to them. They spend an amazing amount of time trying to find something useful to do. And, failing that, just trying to look busy.