Quotes About Skills

When kids start playing basketball, they all think about scoring.

Scoring is probably something I need to work on.

I was a Girl Scout!

My mother is very good in Scrabble. In Boggle, my father is probably better.

The time it would take me to write a screenplay it would take me the time to make two films. I would rather make the movies, and I'm a better moviemaker than I would be writer.

The best thing about my game is I'm able to do a lot of things. I can handle. I can pass. You can bring me off screens and pin-downs.

Playing basketball is second nature to me; acting I found far more challenging.

If I watch a basketball game, I don't really care if a guy hit a three-pointer with three seconds left. I mean, I can like that. But I'm more interested in who drafted him and what makes him special.

I owe my career to TV. Most of my training has been through TV.

I work on crossing the ball at pace. That's something that is not easy. And my first touch has improved, as has my understanding of the game.

I found people I really wanted to work for; I made myself available to do whatever I could with the skills I had; I took some risk, packing up and moving to Chicago; and I looked for the opportunities that fit for me. So I think the biggest advice is to find people you love to work for who you're going to learn from.

When I was four or five years old, my grandfather showed me how to build things, paint, saw. Through years of fixing bikes, repairing lawn mowers, I learned how things work.

I think mid-range shooters are hard to get to a lot of times. Guys are going at you all the way to the paint or looking to swat it at the 3-point line.

I was a painter and decorator with my dad for three years.

If you can't field you can't play for Pakistan. It's as simple as that.

I do things like hem a pair of pants, I do my own tailoring but I wouldn't attempt a jacket.

I've always been partial to good players. If someone is a good player I'm interested.

If everyone is good at something different, assigning chores is easy. If your partner is great at grocery shopping and you are great at the laundry, you're set. But this isn't always - or even usually - the case.

When you consider how many people are really not good at communication in general and interviewing in specific, it's no wonder that many companies struggle to build high-quality partnerships - or even staffs.

Normally, midfielders only pass the ball, but I dribble as well.

I think I am a good running back, but I'm really not that fast. There is only one thing I can do, that is throw a cross-body block. Picture perfect. I love it. Not that good at pass blocking.

I have always passed the ball and worked on that part of my game.

That's what Europe brought to the NBA: the passing skills, the shooting skills.

I was always really good with the ball, I was always passing the ball, scoring, shooting the ball. I think for me, that's just a normal thing.