Jalen Rose Quotes

I worked really hard and changed myself and became a more mature player.

If you deny yourself commitment, what can you do with your life?

My supplements are similar to my training - I always commit to being a better version of myself.

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.

You don't wake up at 18 and necessarily become the person you want to be as an adult - you have to work hard to become them.

There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.

I think each one of us has committed to improving.

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

The last thing I think I am is perfect. I'm just trying to do the best job I can. I'm trying to be the best father I can to my kids. I'm trying to do the best job I can running my business.

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.

You have to work on your own thing. You have to work on yourself, and you have to bring something to the game.

I think of myself as someone who gives everything, and I wake up every day wanting to keep growing.

If I put a statement about being the best interviewer into the universe, I must now live up to it, or at least be held accountable for it. Either way, I'm going to work that much harder.

I'm definitely my worst critic. I guess that's good because it keeps you on your toes.

My defence, that is something I can better at individually.

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.

Nobody's a better critic of myself than me, and I try to do the best I can.

I'm always looking for advice on how to get better as a person and as a player.

People hold me accountable. Before I would push people away, but that's not a way to be successful.

I'm the first one to always criticize myself, and I'm trying to find ways to get better.

I always try to see my weakness, work on it, to be better as a person and a player, everything.

Most of us expect too much from others and not enough from ourselves.

It is the part of an uneducated person to blame others where he himself fares ill; to blame himself is the part of one whose education has begun; to blame neither another nor his own self is the part of one whose education is already complete.