Tim Hardaway Jr. Quotes

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

I don't have a coach. I haven't had a coach for, like, years.

I train myself. I don't have trainers who want hundreds of thousands of dollars to train me. I hire who I want to put the grease on my face, to rub my neck and rub my back, to take my mouthpiece out and rinse it off and put the mouthpiece back in. And then I go about my business. And if they want to say something, they can give me little reminders. All you need are reminders. You don't need 'big-time' trainers.

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.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.

I've always been my own hitting coach.

Work alone is noble.

Only a fool manages himself.

I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.

I like training alone. Otherwise, I find I get too dependent on someone else for motivation.

Yeah, I just handle my business.

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

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

Be an individual, work hard, study, get your mind straight, and trust nobody.

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

I learned early that if I wanted to achieve anything in life, I'd have to do it myself. I learned that I had to be accountable.

What the majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis, it is not what you do for you children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Stay busy and take care of your own business.

There are things one must do for oneself.

I do believe in self-help.

Children who plan their own schedules and evaluate their own work build up their brains and learn to take more responsibility.

When you're in school until you're 25 and you get out and suddenly structure is not handed to you, if you're smart you realize that you need to create structure for yourself.

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

No matter who is watching or paying the paycheck, we are ultimately each our own boss.