Tim Hardaway Jr. Quotes

If you can't put problems in your own backyard to rest, then how can you deal with larger issues?

It makes sense for people who are good at fighting to go out and do it-because if they're good at it, that means the fewest number of other people die.

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

As we mature, there are people with whom we run out of steam, but there are also those with whom a little straight talking would prove rewarding.

You never want conflict. But sometimes conflict is inevitable.

No man resolved to make the most of himself, can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper, and the loss of self-control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own. Better to give your path to a dog, than be bitten by him in contesting the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite

We tried to limit human versus human conflict only to those cases where it could be powerfully motivated and made completely believable.

I think every fight helps for the next.

Every fight, I have to learn something.

Every fight has its rough spots, and I'm always looking for improve every facet.

I think that my offense comes from what I do with my defense.

One of the biggest things we have to be able to do is to handle conflict and handle it correctly. We're able to look at our biases, look at our frustration, look at our sin in this area, our pride and our selfishness. It allows us to move forward.

I think I'll always want to improve my defense. That's something that can always be better. Not saying it's bad now, just something you should always work on.

When someone unloads on me, I keep my head moving; I don't freeze. I punch back with them. The occasion never gets to me. Not one bit. I enjoy it.

I have a bad habit of fighting to the level of my competition.

To all you men out there who want to use turning the other cheek as an excuse for your weakness... man up! Develop yourself to the point that you are powerful enough to face any conflict in your life head on and without trouble. Then, use your newfound confidence to avoid the conflict.

You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills

I want to maximize my potential as a player. I want to be as good as I could possibly be. And if I do that, I think I could be one of the best players out there.

You can improve your talent, but your talent is a given, a mysterious constant. You must make it the best of its kind.

The only job security you have today os your commitment to continuous personal improvement.

A part of control is learning to correct your own weaknesses. The person doesn't live who was born with everything. Sometimes he has one weak point, generally he has several. The first thing is to know your faults. And then take on a systematic plan of correcting them. You know the old saying about a chain only being as strong as its weakest link. The same can be said in the chain of skills a man forges.

I still have a lot of room for improvement. I need to become a more skilled player.

I need to work on defensive play and being consistent.

I can't tell the difference," I said. "Between not fighting and giving up.

The most powerful drive in the ascent of man is his pleasure in his own skill. He loves to do what he does well. And having done it well, he loves to do it better.