B. J. Armstrong Quotes

I don't believe my own hype, I just take each day as it comes. And I always feel blessed.

I'm not for the flashes; I'm not for glitz and glamour, you know. I just want to win, I want to be good at what I do, um, and look back upon these days of playing in the NBA.

The compliment that I like more than anything is when my family tells me I'm the same Ryan. I never want to become a celeb who forgets about anybody or has a big head about himself.

For the most part, I do the thing which my own nature prompts me to do. It is embarrassing to earn so much respect and love for it.

I don't really consider myself one of those superstars. I just consider myself a guy that was lucky enough to win the athletic lottery many times over.

I don't want to be like some of those celebrities walking around, just so full of themselves. I always want to be down-to-earth, want to be a person like when you meet them, they're the same person that you think of them in the article or something.

We were playing every game to win, we just happened to win 27 in a row. Our motto was to try and go out and win every game, but there's nothing really to talk about.

Humility does not mean believing oneself to be inferior, but to be freed from self-importance. It is a state of natural simplicity which is in harmony with our true nature and allows us to taste the freshness of the present moment.

The Rose does not preen herself to catch my eye. She blooms because she blooms. A saint is a saint until he knows he is one.

Excuses are for losers, and winning is for winners, like you!

I like Messi because he doesn't think he is Messi.

There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.

The Truth never flaunted a sign.

I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an interesting story entertainingly.

Being humble is cooler than being famous.

I was intent on doing something productive and on being everything my parents taught me to be. Their values were clear: do good work; don't ever get too big for your breeches; always be an authentic person; don't worry too much about being famous and rich because that doesn't amount to too much.

The amazing thing about the winners is that none of them really felt that they were doing anything special. They just felt like it was the right thing to do.

Your best player has to set a tone of intolerance for anything that gets in the way of winning

There are some concrete ways to create a winning attitude. But nothing beats practicing it. When you prepare to win, belief comes easily.

A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.

There's no reason to play in the NBA if you don't believe you can win it all.

Least at thine own things laugh.

Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.

It's my job to try to communicate with as little showiness as possible. I was a really showy actor as a young man.

I'd rather be around broken people who have a degree of humility, and just get on with their work.