Will Durant Quotes

If I come to work every day and do my job, work as hard as I can, be a great teammate, the rest of that stuff will take care of itself.

I want to go down as a winner.

If I continue to just get to the playoffs every year, I guess you could say I arrived, but right now I'm just trying to find my way.

Every memory I have from when I was a kid involves basketball.

I learned how to pass when I was real young. That's one thing I always knew how to do was find the open man.

My acting coach I've got here, Richard Lawson, he's been doing good, just telling me to calm down sometimes and just be me.

Chemistry is important. If you like your teammates, it's going to be easier to play with them on the court.

I love Oklahoma. The fans have been with me every night. What more can you ask for?

The clothes are not making me If I like it, that's all that mattersIt's not about the clothes. It's about how I am as a person and how confident I am.

I would describe my style as off the wall. I like stuff that doesn't match. I just like to stand out.

Our best years are only ahead of us, so we got to continue to keep pushing.

You know, I don't want to stand out too much.

All this stuff is kind of surreal to me - Ididn't think I'd be in the league or none of that. It was making it to college. That's about it.

I'm not a guy that's going to brag or feel like I'm better than the group.

I'll play all five positions if my team needs me to.

I've just got to let my teammates know in practice, without even telling them, that I don't think I'm ahead of anybody.

Work harder than your opponent.

I've heard a few times, in three or four years, this league is going to be yours. I don't like that. Because I think I'm established now.

We live in a world of what have you done for me lately. We don't remember the day before sometimes. Think back five, six, years ago what he was doing. It's unheard of.

No lie, just had one of the best times of my life at Rucker park..wow! I love NYHarlem waddup.

You gotta win. That's all it takes.

I feel good doing it. It's not like guys are stripping me at half-court or I'm just losing the ball dribbling. I think I'm handling the ball pretty well, just trying to make good passes, man.

I'm here to shine a bright light. I'm not here to be a guy of death. I just like 'KD' better.

I feel as though I've proved myself these last five years that I can be one of the top players in the league.

It feels good to come here and be a winning program.

It feels good to be a part of history.

I'm not this tough guy, I'm not this super hard person.

I'm not going to act like I'm this person that I'm not, because I operate bad in that space, you know what I'm saying?

I'm not into no basketball beef.

We're talking too much about what goes on in the stands, nothing about what goes on on the court.

I play basketball. I can't control the media, the way I play. I can't control all of it.

I ride for my guys. That's the bro code.

It's not always like I'm right, and you're wrong. It's both ways.

It's fun that I get to live out my dream every single day. It's a blessing. I can't lose sight of that and I've just got to keep pushing.

Twitter is a place where I can let people know what type of person I am, and I got some good feedback from it. More good than bad, so it's a good outlet to let people know who I am.

Time sanctifies everything; even the most arrant theft in the hands of the robber's grandchildren becomes sacred and inviolable property.

Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind.

The finger that turns the dial rules the air.

The laws that Charondas gave to Catana,... A man might divorce his wife, or a wife her husband, said Charondas, but then he or she must not marry anyone younger than the divorced mate.

Human progress having reached a high level through respect for the liberty and dignity of men, it has become desirable to re-affirm these evident truths

Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard.

Civilization is not inherited it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew…

War does one good—it teaches people geography.

No man is educated for statesmanship who cannot see his time from the perspective of the past.

Men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things.

History is an excellent teacher with few pupils.

[V]irtue is not news, and virtuous men, like happy nations, have no history.

[I]ndeed, one hears, in early Christian theology, as many echoes of Persian dualism as of Hebrew Puritanism or Greek philosophy.

[S]hame is a child of custom rather than of nature.

There are not many things finer in our murderous species than this noble curiosity, this restless and reckless passion to understand.