Sue Bird famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I'm a bit of a perfectionist, but you have to know you're going to make mistakes. It's how you respond to those mistakes that counts.
-- Sue Bird

#Mistake #Perfectionist #Knows
To be successful, you have to expose yourself to different situations-different styles of play, different teammates, different coaching.
-- Sue Bird

#Successful #Play #Coaching
I like pressure. I thrive on it.
-- Sue Bird

#Pressure #Thrive
I'll play until my knees fall off.
-- Sue Bird

#Fall #Play #Knees
Going to college and living with someone of another race gave me a different view of what people have to go through.
-- Sue Bird

#College #Race #Views
I have to be more assertive-I have take more control at crunch time.
-- Sue Bird

#Crunch #Assertive #Crunch Time
People probably assume I sleep in my uniform. Then I get up and go to the mall or the market in my uniform.
-- Sue Bird

#Sleep #People #Uniforms
When you have teammates just as talented as you, it's kind of weird to get all the attention.
-- Sue Bird

#Attention #Teammate #Kind
I knew I would be able to come back from the injury 100 percent.
-- Sue Bird

#Would Be #Able #Injury

Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
There's a lot we should be able to learn from history. And yet history proves that we never do. In fact, the main lesson of history is that we never learn the lessons of history. This makes us look so stupid that few people care to read it. They'd rather not be reminded. Any good history book is mainly just a long list of mistakes, complete with names and dates. It's very embarrassing.
One of the biggest mistakes companies make is brute force lead generation - "give me more leads!" -when they don't understand that not all leads are the same.
Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives. And make no mistake about it: love does take over and transform the schemes and operations of our egos in a very mighty way.
There is a certain kind of pain that can change you. Even the strongest sword, when placed in a raging fire, will soften and bend and change its form... Trust me on this one. I know this from personal experience. I hope that you never will, but, since you're a person, and therefore prone to making horrible, soul-splitting mistakes, you probably will one day know what this kind of guilt and shame feels like. And when that time comes, I hope you have the strength...to take advantage of the fire and reshape your own sword.
The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake. You can't learn anything from being perfect.
I never considered Miles Davis a perfectionist; I always considered him as an excellence-ist, where deviation is actually kind of cool.
It's a bit of a headache being a perfectionist. You're never satisfied.
I'm a perfectionist. I'm not going to cheat the people.
People have always thought I was "on" something. After a while I began to think they knew something I didn't know! But I don't know, I just love living. And I love doing what I do.

Sue Bird famous quotes

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