Clyde Drexler Quotes

One of the widest gaps in human experience is the gap between what we say we want to be and our willingness to discipline ourselves to get there.

For me, it's not really about showing the coaches. It's about being accountable, being accountable for my own actions and continuing to do what I've been doing since I got here.

Sacrifice. Work. Self-discipline. I teach these things, and my boys don't forget them when they leave.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

I believed and still believe that success is only part of the story. It makes you want to get better and better so as not to let yourself down and not to let the people down who like what you do and you don't waste your success.

Doing what you want to do is easy. Doing what you have to do is hard.

My principal at RADA once told me, 'You'll know you're a professional when you don't feel like doing it but you have to do it.'

I have a rigid self-accountability. You have to work hard.

Sometimes you gotta do things that you don't really want to do. But you don't do them for money.

My work ethic I learned at Miami High, and I have taken that with me.

There was no question that in our house doing well, doing it the right way, school, sports - there was an expectation. One of the things I've taken away from that is that I'm unafraid to expect a fair amount from people. It makes them so much better - you're doing them a disservice if you don't.

May the spirit of devotion to duty which inspires us always dominate this Committee's conferences!

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

You cheat yourself when you don't do what it is you're supposed to do. You have an obligation to learn everything that you can.

The academy gave me a grounding in discipline and hard work that has sustained me throughout my life, and the lessons I learned there I now try to impress on young people.

One of my biggest influences of all time would probably be one of my soccer coaches, Coach Darlington, from high school. He was always trying to get me to push myself really hard. No excuses. I always hated him, but it paid off. I think that's what life is all about... when you push through the hard stuff and it pays off.

Most of us don't mind doing what we ought to do when it doesn't interfere with what we want to do, but it takes discipline and maturity to do what we ought to do whether we want to or not.

One of the things Mother said to me, 'You want this, you're going to practice.' And I know how to practice.

I never worked hard until I got to the Howard Law School and met Charlie Houston... I saw this man's dedication, his vision, his willingness to sacrifice, and I told myself, 'You either shape up or ship out.' When you are being challenged by a great human being, you know that you can't ship out.

It's not my job to hold your hand. It's my job to take motivated people and show them how to become better.

The day I feel like I can't contribute to the team's success, that's the day I am going to call it quits.

I love practising, ever since I was that kid in the field, but I don't set targets for each session or anything.

Coaching works best with high potential people who are willing to make a concerted effort to change, not as a religious conversion activity.