Stephen Jackson Quotes

I was not the best student. Thank God I had a lot of hockey talent.

I am smarter because I stayed in school, and I am a better football player.

The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel.

I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.

From an early age, I tried to take in all the instructions of all the coaches I had.

I've been lucky to have great coaching, great teammates, and a desire to keep getting better. That, slowly over time, helped me grow from an average high school player to the NBA.

You need talent and good coaching to be successful in the NBA.

I need to just keep training hard and getting all the information from the coaches and the players.

Playing sports is a craft that has to be worked on and perfected just like anything else.

Giannis is truly a student of the game. He listens to the coaches, they show him film, and he's always in the gym working on his game and trying to find ways to get better.

I've always worked hard at being a well-rounded player.

My talent in playing football was not the highest but I was very hard-working, interested to learn and get better, and this focus made me better and better.

I gotta work on my overall game.

You can't just learn wrestling overnight.

I know people know how good I am playing basketball... All I do is just use it as motivation: keep getting better, keep doing the same stuff and doing it even better.

I didn't say I was that smart, I said I went to class and I enjoyed what I was doing.

I think as far as kids go, you just have to work hard. Work on your skills, keep focused.

I come from playing sports. I compete, so I gotta be better than I was last year. I gotta get better, and that better gotta come from just growing. From learning new stuff to working on it, experience it in life, and failing.

I have a God-given talent and I work very hard for what I do. Anybody can run fast. It's how you run fast. I pay attention to technical things now.

I think the most rewarding part of the job, and I think most coaches would say it, is practice. If you have it, a very good practice in which you have 12 guys participate, and they can really get something out of it, lose themselves in practice.

You have to have a lot of little boy in you to play baseball for a living.

I think I'm skilful enough, but I don't consider myself a naturally talented, gifted sports person.

An athlete must have ability to reach the top, but many who have ability and who do not live clean lives never have and never will be champions for obvious reasons.

Seems like my iron play gets a little better every year. Which makes sense - I've been working hard on things with my teacher, Jim McLean.

What makes knowledge automatic is what gets you to Carnegie Hall - practice, practice, practice.