Lenny Wilkens Quotes

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

I don't pay to have my dirty work done for me. I do it myself.

You have to be concerned with yourself because if you're not on it all the time, nobody else is going to be.

Do your own homework. I can't overstate the importance of this.

If someone else isn't making it happen for you, make it happen yourself.

There's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin' it.

I am responsible for me. I can kind of take care of what I need to do and should do what I like to do.

I like people who take responsibility for their lives.

Do everything yourself.

All of the things that have happened in my life have been self-propelled. I can't blame anybody else or point a finger at anybody.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future... but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don't let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

If you want to do something, just do it. No one is going to do it for you.

Listen, little boy. In this business, there's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin' it.

Carefully avoid all undertakings which depends on others; but let him eagerly pursue that which depends on himself.

In college, the coaching staff does more work with you individually. But at the next level, you have to do it all by yourself.

Yeah, I just handle my business.

I don't have a lot of time for people who don't take care of their own problems. Everything that needs to be done takes effort.

Expectations are one thing, but you've got to do your own. Got to do your own.

Ultimately, I play for myself, and I take responsibility for my own actions.

You have people like Sarah Jessica Parker - and it's also because of her mother and where she came from and all that stuff - but how you're taught to be responsible for yourself rather than endlessly people waiting for you and bringing you things.

Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself.

If you want things to be right, you have to do them yourself

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

I have to do things for myself, and if those standards are set high, then it's up to me to pass or fail.

I am not driven.