I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and I sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.

Pressure is a privilege.

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

Individual commitment to a group effort—that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.

If you want to be a champion, you have to be able to last. That means you have to outlast your opponents, mentally and physically.

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

The only way to prove you're a good sport is to lose.

Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get up.

It's not about the glory, it's about the grit. It's not about the win, it's about what you become on the way to getting there.

Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard.

The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.

If you don't fall, how are you going to get up?

It's not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters.

What do you do after you win a tournament? You go home and practice.