Quotes about Personal Growth

After about a month of living on my own, I began to feel it. I bought some plants. I remember I named one of them Penelope, and I would talk to her and water her every day. Apparently, I over-watered her, and she died. That's when I knew I needed a roommate. So I got one.

Everything is not on a plate for you at Saint Martins - it's about personality, about working out how to do it.

You learn yourself, as a player, what you can handle at the plate, what you can't.

I need to step up to the plate, and I can't be selfish, and I need to stop getting in my own way.

I think if the desire to improve what I do starts to plateau then what's the point.

Women, at 50, are on a plateau with their careers, but later they ascend.

Everyone should be themselves, and everybody makes mistakes, and young people who have a platform like I have, I know people who have a much bigger platform who are much more influential, who have made mistakes and learnt from them and had to do that on a public stage.

I just started growing. And everyone said, 'You should probably play basketball.' So I said, 'All right. I'll give it a shot.'

I didn't want to go to college, I didn't want to play football anymore, and I kind of just goofed off for about a year and a half.

When I came to BYU, I had no idea what I wanted to study. It really was a decision based on football. I wanted to come here and play football. The decision has turned out to be so much more than football.

It's kind of nice, and rewarding, to have been on the journey from having to play football and work to being a professional.

I used to stay up all night, roam around, drink, and carry on like everybody else. That all changed when I got older, started to exercise and play golf. I knew by the time the day was over I would not feel like exercising, so I made it a point to exercise early.

I played until 37-years-old and my last three or four years I learnt the most.

All I want to do is improve as a player.

Moving out and living on my own was a big thing, but to be in a different country with different coaches and a different mentality changed me as a person, as a player, the way I think about things and the way I see people.

In Italy I have learnt a lot, I have matured both as a man and as a player. I have lived the best years of my career here.

It's hard for me to come up with a plan and hold my players accountable until I self-evaluate and hold myself accountable.

My best score ever is 103, but I've only been playing 15 years.

But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.

Playing games and watching film, I've been able to see the improvements I can make and how much better I can be. It's exciting to think about it.

When I first got drafted, I've really grown. Coming in, I was kind of nervous but honestly I've been really blessed going to two playoff series, one against Miami and the next year against Chicago and the Celtics. I've progressed easier.

Anybody who plays golf will tell you that you play against yourself.

I wrote a lot when I was younger, though never anything like plays or scripts.

I have inherited my father's sense of humour about myself. It's a lot more pleasant to make fun of yourself than when someone else does.