Quotes About Progress

I want to see if the player communicates with his teammates and how he responds to coaching. Another thing to remember is players' bodies can develop better than their skills.

I had teammates like Chris Davis. Manny Machado was really young and such a good kid. Seeing his development, it's ridiculous. He's going to get bigger. He's going to get stronger. He's going to get even better.

I've been lucky to have great coaching, great teammates, and a desire to keep getting better. That, slowly over time, helped me grow from an average high school player to the NBA.

I'm just worried about winning and making my teammates better and getting better.

I just try to do what I do by getting my teammates open and getting better at finishing and making plays when I can.

I want me and my teammates to go as far as we can and to be the best players that we all can be.

Just every year, every day, I just try to better myself. What can I do better to make it easier for me and my teammates?

That's all I seek every practice and every game, to progress in some way, be coachable and try to be the best I can be for my teammates.

Philly, I feel like, is where I became a man and matured my game and became better. I went through the good and the bad with my teammates and it taught me a lot. With the fans and all, it was a great experience.

Preseason is preseason. It's actually made to make mistakes and to learn from your teammates and plays and stuff.

I like people who are working on practical things and who are working in teams. It's not so important to get the glory. It's much more important to get something that works. It's a better way to live.

I tell people in their careers, 'Look for growth. Look for the teams that are growing quickly. Look for the companies that are doing well. Look for a place where you feel that you can have a lot of impact.'

Australopithecus.

I don't know what to think about this new, responsible Rose.

One step at a time," murmured Abe. "No point in letting the larger picture overwhelm us. We'll just start at the beginning.

If you're on the path of right, and someone crosses it with wrong, you don't need to turn. Build a bridge over their path and continue on your way.

Sometimes it's worth lingering on the journey for a while before getting to the destination.

Edmund S. Morgan would write (in respect to the Declaration of Independence), "The creed of equality did not give men equality, but invited them to claim it, invited them, not to know their place and keep it, but to seek and demand a better place.

Mistakes? That's why they put erasers on pencils.

Write every day. Don't ever stop. If you are unpublished, enjoy the act of writing—and if you are published, keep enjoying the act of writing. Don't become self-satisfied, don't stop moving ahead, growing, making it new. The stakes are high. Why else would we write?

His errors and failures have not traveled the same distance as his successes.

mature material. Where once he had hollered through

When CD technology first came out, it was just so much waste.

By doing something positive in this world, you're helping people and the future. We're all trying to help the world... make it a better place to live. We're actually still changing the world, aren't we?