“The time when there is no one there to feel sorry for you or to cheer for you is when a player is made”
"We are unselfish and we trust each other"
- Tim Duncan
Teamwork
"I'm surrounded by nothing but great people. I've been blessed with that, so really, I've got no choice but to be an all-around good person."
- Tim Duncan
Gratitude
"You’ve got to stay ready, especially around here. That’s what we preach, you’ll get your opportunity whether it comes at the beginning or in the middle or in the end whenever it may be. When your time comes, you need to be ready to go because you’re going to earn your minutes"
- Tim Duncan
Perseverance
"The time when there is no one there to feel sorry for you or to cheer for you is when a player is made."
- Tim Duncan
Perseverance
"Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best."
- Tim Duncan
Achievement
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity