Jamal Crawford Quotes

When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there.

A ballplayer doesn't make excuses.

Find fault with thyself rather than with others.

When I was younger, I was always taught not to make excuses.

Of course there is a lot of things you can work on and change and all that, but first I think you should look at yourself before you actually start trying to find excuse in the other people, whether it's going to be coach, physio, family, or whoever else is on your side.

I'm always amazed when a pitcher becomes angry at a hitter for hitting a home run off him. When I strike out, I don't get angry at the pitcher, I get angry at myself. I would think that if a pitcher threw up a home run ball, he should be angry at himself.

As long as I'm out there and getting a chance to play, I expect to do well. No one is harder on themselves than me when I do bad, and I don't plan on changing any time soon.

I'm generally pretty responsible and diligent, but people make mistakes.

One thing I realized, I was making too many excuses and not taking responsibility for how I was playing.

Don't whine, complain, or make excuses.

Do not make excuses, whether it's your fault or not.

The words It's not my fault! should never again come from your mouth. The words It's not my fault! have been symbolically written on the gravestones of unsuccessful people ever since Eve took her first bite of the apple.

In life, you can blame a lot of people and you can wallow in self-pity, or you can pick yourself up and say, 'Listen, I have to be responsible for myself.'

I have impeached myself by resigning.

One of the things you learn in rehab is that you're responsible for your own actions.

Every night on the court I give my all, and if I'm not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.

The great thing about baseball is the causality is easy to determine and it always falls on the shoulders of one person. So there is absolute responsibility. That's why baseball is psychologically the cruelest sport and why it really requires psychological resources to play baseball - because you have to learn to live with failure.

I'm not really in the excuse business.

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

You only have the burdens on you that you choose to put there.

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.

Mostly the problems when I was down were caused by myself. There were times when I was not responsible enough or decisive enough.

I enjoyed the position I was in as a tennis player. I was to blame when I lost. I was to blame when I won. And I really like that, because I played soccer a lot too, and I couldn't stand it when I had to blame it on the goalkeeper.

My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.

So after a while, if people won't accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.