A.G. Howard Quotes

My job is to be the best teammate I can be, push these guys to the limit every day, make sure that I'm being the right type of leader.

Basketball has brought me a lot of joy, brought me a lot of good things. Just that side of it has really affected me.

I didn't need to meet with other teams. I didn't care about what offers were on the table. I wanted to be in Atlanta. I wanted to represent for this team.

I hated that perception that I didn't work hard, that I really don't love basketball.

I'm a fun person to be around, laid back, love to have fun.

I just want to show Atalanta who I really am and show my teammates what kind of teammate I am.

I changed up everything around me. I hold myself more accountable in certain situations. I try to be a better man, a better father, a better teammate.

I know who I am and what kind of teammate I've always been.

I had a lot of negativity growing up, so I understand how to block the negativity out.

Nobody thought that I was going to make it to the NBA. I only had a couple of believers growing up.

God says, Turn the other cheek. So there's no way I could play in a man's game.

I want to make sure I'm fly. Nothing too baggy, something that fits right. I just like that feeling when you go out in public and everyone's like "Wow, that's an awesome outfit."

I'll joke all day, but once I get in the gym, I'm going to work hard.

When I'm smiling, I'm supposedly not taking the game seriously. When I'm not smiling, then it's like, "He don't care. He's just out there."

The hardest thing to do is to trust people. Even if you know them from way back when, it's hard to trust people. There's a lot we have to deal with, and it's the price of fame.

I was supposed to be in the NBA. I was supposed to travel the world and make the world a better place.

That's my job, to motivate people. I can do more, show people more things. That's really why I play basketball. That's my whole purpose of playing basketball.

I work extremely hard in the weight room, and also on the court to get better and make sure I keep my body in shape.

I've always played 'NBA Live' since I was a kid, so to be on the cover is a blessing.

I would never, ever desert my child. A lot of my friends didn't have fathers growing up, and they were very upset that their fathers weren't around. I was lucky to have mine around.

I'm trying to earn everything given to me. I play hard and I want guys to remember that when they play the Magic they have to face Dwight Howard. And when you face him you have to get after it.

It was more of me rushing my shots than anything. Thats the biggest thing for me. I was making good moves, but at the end of my moves, I was rushing all my shots. I learned a lesson.

In Orlando, I handled a lot of stuff the wrong way.

You go from high school, to the NBA, and you're thrown in the fire.

People say you don't need a father to be successful. I take offense to that.

Every experience, however bitter, has its lesson, and to focus one's attention on the lesson helps one overcome the bitterness.

Peace among the nations, like happiness for the individual, is not an end, but a by-product that usually comes when you live right.

For a single girl in London, luck isn't always a glass slipper that fits. Sometimes luck is a splash of mud from a passing bus.

The craze of genealogy is connected with the epidemic for divorce. If we can't figure out who our living relatives are, then maybe we'll have more luck with the dead ones.

A strange lot this, to be dropped down in a world of barbarians - men who see clearly enough the barbarity of all ages except their own.

Morality has nothing to do with sports. Bad people can be good at sports and good people can be bad at sports.

Home is a complex and resonant idea.

I love the idea of literature as a room or series of rooms that allow you to be present as it slowly unfolds itself in all its capacities.

I know that as a writer I'm trying to, in some small way, return the gift that I got, and maybe provide a reader the kind of experience that has changed my life.

I usually start with a title or maybe a little rhyme or phrase.

Work is both my living and my pleasure.

I take a whole life story and compress it into three minutes.

Thus I alone, where all my freedom grew, In prison pine with bondage and restraint; And with remembrance of the greater grief To banish the less, I find my chief relief.

Ability is the result of mental and physical toughness, resourcefulness, and powerful concentration.

Entrepreneurs constantly confuse what they do with who they are.

When I'm on the court, I'm a follower.

Listen more often than you speak.

A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal.

I'm not interested in entertainment.

You emerge from tragedy equipped against lies. After the musical, you're anybody's fool

I believe in poetic discourse, in the value of speech in a non-naturalistic way; it's speculative.

I’ve often taken important classical, biblical or literary stories and interrogated them. I have tried to reinvigorate Lot by interpreting it differently.

Period movies are just always a wonderful thing to work on.

It was the most amazing opportunity to work on a period movie and transform Anthony Hopkins into Hitchcock.

There's always challenges to everything.