Greg Oden Quotes

I am growing and learning. There's so much more that I want to accomplish and do. I'm gonna do it at whatever pace it happens. I'm not trying to rush anything or slow anything down.

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.

There are some aspects of work you need to keep working on and no matter what environment you are in. Continuous learning is very important. It's what I call 'competitive tension', which is about having a competition around.

My mother was a great typist. She said she loved to type because it gave her time to think. She was a secretary for an insurance company. She was a poor girl; she'd grown up in an orphanage, and she went to a business college - and then worked to put her brothers through school.

I always try and hold to that saying, 'I want to work on things I'd want to see.' The vast majority, that's been true.

If I was to sit there and think about anything, it would be, 'What can you look forward to, what can you put your time into, and what can help you grow up?'

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It's a way of life for me.

I mean, it's the life lessons that I suppose you learn that nobody gets a free ride and that you do the best you can with the means that you can and try to open yourself to as much knowledge and all that that you can.

As a competitor, I want to continue to keep turning the chapters and keep challenging myself.

People often ask whether I consider myself successful. I don't yet, because there's so much more I want to accomplish. I put more pressure on myself than anyone else can.

If I stayed in this game for individual achievements, I don't think I'd still be playing.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

I was always a good student, but I didn't read that much until I was 18 and I was working my way through college.

I have very high expectations of myself. I'm a very competitive person but competitive with myself. I want to be the best that I can be and if that means that I'm eventually better than everyone else then so be it.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

The doer alone learneth.

Sometimes I think, 'Why should I care about doing well in New Zealand?'

It never occurred to me that I wouldn't go to college and have a career - as well as a family - of my own. Both my parents, but especially my mother, encouraged me and led me to believe that it was possible.

The willingness to keep learning is, I think, the most important thing about trying to be good at anything. You never want to stop learning.

Yeah, I think there are many other important things in life, not just tennis.

I'm competitive with myself, and that goes hand in hand with how I present myself. I'm not only trying to put one foot in front of the other, I'm trying to put my best foot forward.

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.

As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.

For me, I like to push myself... I hate feeling complacent or that I'm not learning.

It's a kind of philosophy of my own life, to create the energy enough to keep on going.