Jay-Z Quotes

A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.

Be larger than your task.

A dwarf on a giant's shoulder, sees further of the two.

A Dwarfe on a Gyants shoulder sees further of the two. [A dwarf on a giant's shoulder sees farther of the two.

Being in attack mode is something I try to bring into every single game, and that's what's making me be so successful.

Great performers welcome pressure.

Don't look for excuses to lose. Look for excuses to win.

People who succeed at the highest level are not lucky; they're doing something differently than everyone else.

I've imagined great victories, and I've imagined great races. The races are better.

They say ya additude determines ya laditude.

Many books have been written about what the X-factor is, what separates people who win big matches versus those who struggle. Some of it's innate, but there's a piece of it that's learned, embracing those moments.

The truth is that I didn't start as a winner. When I was a kid, I was just another reject. I started at the bottom. I think all winners do.

You know, growing up my - you know, I came from Compton, Calif., and, you know, it was a place where a lot of people did come out when a lot of people stayed. So I've been able to see the top and the bottom of life, and I think that balances you if you allow it to and if you remember where you came from.

I have a temperament where I know how to win.

I never really knew what it meant, to win, until one day I was flying on the Phoenix Suns airplane, the team plane, on the way to Chicago. I was talking to Danny Ainge on this flight, and he was talking about the concept of knowing how to win. And so he proceeded to give me from his perspective as an athlete, and now he's a coach, what the whole concept of knowing how to win is, and he said part of it is rooted in experience, the experience of winning, but it's attitudinal, it's the belief that you should, it's the belief that you can, it's the belief.

You have to believe in yourself. You have to believe there's a reason you're trying to pursue the highest levels you can go. That's because you can do it and you can do it well and you can do it better than anybody else.

You don't go into the game to compete. You go into each game to win.

Every time I stepped on the field, I believed my team was going to walk off the winner, somehow, someway.

If I fail more than you do, I win.

You need to have that edge, you need to have that confidence, you need to have that absolute belief that you're - you're the best and you'll win every time.

It's never just a game when you're winning.

It's simple. Success comes from training harder, living better and digging deeper than the others.

When you were built to be tall, you will endanger your position if you lower your perspective

I want to find the best opportunity to become the best in the world.