David Robinson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

What I need to do is have a great positive attitude and a great work ethic. Those two things validate me. Yes, it's important that I have good numbers, and I'm well-respected as a player. But I think it's more important that I'm respected as a man.
-- David Robinson

#Attitude #Player #Men
Dream big; at least you will have the joy of reaching for the stars instead of living in a box filled with unopened gifts.
-- David Robinson

#Motivational #Dream #Stars
You're always going to face criticism, you're always going to face challenges, but those things are there to make you stronger and more committed.
-- David Robinson

#Basketball #Challenges #Criticism
I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.
-- David Robinson

#Teamwork #Winning #Player
Basketball is just something else to do, another facet of life. I'm going to be a success at whatever I choose because of my preparation. By the time the game starts, the outcome has been decided. I never think about having a bad game because I have prepared.
-- David Robinson

#Basketball #Thinking #Games
I think editors are excellent marketers. They know their audience and produce copy to appeal to them - they just don't call it marketing.
-- David Robinson

#Business #Thinking #Editors
Defense is what matters. Scoring doesn't interest me.
-- David Robinson

#Basketball #What Matters #Defense

Leaders are active instead of reactive, shaping ideas instead of responding to them. Leaders adopt a personal and active attitude toward goals. The influence a leader exerts in altering moods, evoking images and expectations, and in establishing specific desires and objectives determines the direction an organization takes. The net result of this influence is to change the way people think about what is desirable, possible, and necessary. In other words, leaders are visionaries and managers operate within those established visions.
It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.
If I feel like I've done the best that I can or conducted myself in the most constructive way that I can in a situation, then I feel peace.
My music lives because of real players.
I feel like Josh, Michelle and Adam were all team players, who wanted to be a part of an ensemble.
Lampard's not the first player to run to the crowd with lips over his mouth.
All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.
I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.
This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men.
Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.

David Robinson famous quotes

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