I've never been competitive with anybody but myself.
If you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.
I've never believed in competition. Everyone's here to do their own thing and become successful in that respect.
A winning player is nothing more than a player on a winning team. A losing player is a guy who played on a losing team that year.
America guarantees equal opportunity, not equal outcome.
I'm very happy that people call me by my first name now. They seem to believe that I'm not just doing this job because my father did. I also hope I will be more successful than my father.
It's incredible to win an individual award in a team sport and also one where everybody wants to be able to say, 'I'm the best.'
You're not in competition with other women. You're in competition with everyone.
With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although I am reluctant to see individual achievement reduced to archetypes.
I'm competitive with myself, not at the expense of everything around me. I never wanted to be a movie star. I just wanted to act.
Someone else's success does not equal a failure for you.
Pioneering is the work of individuals.
I have never met anyone who has worked harder than me.
...Fatherland without freedom and merit is a large word with little meaning.
I'm not all about winning rushing titles, or 'Me, Me, Me,' but I do believe that I want to be a great player in this league, and I want to go down as one of the best to play in this league, and that's something you got to do.
It is always the individual who thinks. Society does not think any more than it eats or drinks. The evolution of human reasoning from the naive thinking of primitive man to the more subtle thinking of modern science took place within society. However, thinking itself is always an achievement of individuals.
It's not just about your name. It's about what you do for your team and your value on the defensive end of the court. That's all that matters.
I learned that he that will be a hero will barely be a man; that he that will be nothing but a doer of his work is sure of his manhood.
Nature has willed that man should, by himself, produce everything that goes beyond the mechanical ordering of his animal existence, and that he should partake of no other happiness or perfection than that which he himself, independently of instinct, has created by his own reason.
Individuals have conquered themselves. Nations and large bodies of men, never.
We can't worry about competition. Besides, you aren't competing with anyone but yourself. They have nothing to do with whether you make a good movie or not.
When I think about my MVP season, I will also think about the loss to Golden State. But winning the award as Most Valuable Player of the NBA is just a huge honor. I didn't really realize how big it was until Mark Cuban had tears in his eyes at the award ceremony.
Winning the Rookie of the Year would be nice but making the playoffs would be even nicer for me.
Someone else's success is not your failure.
It's not what one person does. One person is going to get to be the star of the game. But it might have been the guy who got the guy over that's the real star of the game.
