Jo Jordan Quotes

A more just world is possible.

If you love the game, nobody can take that from you.

How many times have your parents told you not to do things, and the next thing you know, you go do it? And you realized you shouldn't have done it.

If I had been playing for money I would have complained a long time ago that I was underpaid.

Not every flying hero has a cape.

I want to be the bridge to the next generation.

I built my talents on the shoulders of someone else's talent.

Heart is what separates the good from the great.

I would tell players to relax and never think about what's at stake. Just think about the basketball game. If you start to think about who is going to win the championship, you've lost your focus.

It's easier for me to get ready for a game on the road because you're expected to lose when you play away from home. That's a challenge to right there and that perks my competitive juices.

We're beating a lot of poor teams. So what? We won a lot of games last year, too. Will Horace and Bill still be playing at this level in the playoffs...Can Pip keep it up?

Isn't (life) all about trying?

Once I made a decision, I never thought about it again.

If I have an agenda or a goal, no one is going to deter me from what I want to do.

There is no such thing as a perfect basketball player, and I don't believe there is only one greatest player either.

Fundamentals were the most crucial part of my game in the NBA. Everything I did, everything I achieved, can be traced back to the way I approached the fundamentals.

There was never any fear for me, no fear of failure. If I miss a shot, so what?

Great players never look in the mirror and think I'm a great basketball player. You ask yourself, Am I the best player I can be?

I encourage first time filmmakers to be ambitious and take chances and risks, because you never know where your career is going to go.

As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words.

To begin is no more agony than opening your hand.

It's not only the wealth of sounds in Omnisphere; You're struck by the fact that you hear magic sound after magic sound.

You are epic fail if you think you are better than me!

I don't really look at myself as a role model. And I just am the way I am and if people want to look up to me, they do. By no means do I like to give a negative image either.

Play like a champ. Win like a champ. Act like a champ.

You grow stronger from failure than you do from success.

I'm a big guy so I have to keep my muscles loose. So I do a lot of stretching before the game. I'll do about 10-15 minutes of yoga just to loosen up my body, get warm and get ready to play.

All war is murder, robbery, trickery, and no nation ever escaped losses of men, prosperity and virility. War knows no victor.

The imperative is to define what is right and do it.

The earth is bread we take and eat.

What we can't speak, we say in silence.

I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.

Women often seemed to leave things unsaid, and in his limited experience it was what they did not say that proved the most trouble.

In Shinear, a woman [is] safe anywhere, any time-except from Trollocs and Myrddraal, of course-and any man [will] die to see it so.

Better to have one woman on your side than ten men.

Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.

Often you don't know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three.

Live the moment for the moment.

No brain, no gain. Stay in school.

Americans can live with the fact that good people sometimes give their lives for this country, but what they can't take, what they can't live with is when their government is not square with them.

Purchasing the Bobcats is the culmination of my post-playing career goal of becoming the majority owner of an NBA franchise.

Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we ignore the common ties that bind all Americans.

Life is a sport...drink it up.

I was aware of my success, but I never stopped trying to get better.

Success doesn't stop when you get there

Nobody wants to see sketch comedy that's the same sketch they've seen time and time again, or that's just a rehash of that thing.

Freedom is indivisible, and either we are working for freedom or you are working for the sake of your self-interests and I am working for mine.

We haven't done enough work to encourage minorities to strive to make movies. Hollywood is a place full of white male directors - there are many good ones. We just haven't nurtured our voices.

Til shade is gone, til water is gone Into the shadow with teeth bared Screaming defiance with the last breath To spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the Last Day.

What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.