Quotes by Jay Williams - Page 1

I love Joakim Noah. He's energetic.
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Energetic
Noah
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I've had to learn how to control my animation.
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Animation
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The NBA is way more progressive than the NFL or MLB.
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Nba
Nfl
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I am a point guard. It's a job that I'm not scared of.
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Point Guard
Guard
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I love to dress in Italian clean-cut three-piece suits.
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Clean-Cut
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My story's been an open book for a long time, no pun intended.
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Open Book
Pun
Time Long Long Time
Intended
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There's nothing like watching basketball being played at its finest.
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Finest
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I've dreamed about being in the Final Four since I was a little boy.
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Dreamed
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The more I accomplish in a day, the happier I am. I truly love to work.
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Accomplish
Love Work I Am
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I don't think forcing an athlete to stay in school does anything for the athlete.
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Forcing
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I think Villanova is a really good basketball team and Jay Wright's a great coach.
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Basketball Team
Good Great Think
Jay
Wright
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The thing about being a kid is you're going to make mistakes in the heat of the moment.
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Heat
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Nolan Smith is going to be a guy that can drive to the basket, can create his own shot.
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Nolan
Basket
Smith
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If I take five seconds to think about something on TV, that five seconds is an eternity.
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Eternity
Seconds
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I love journalism and broadcasting. So I'm happy about my life and I wouldn't change a thing.
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Broadcasting
Journalism
Life Love Change
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The thing about me is, all my life, the only way I've known to be better is to try to outwork people.
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Life Me Better
All My Life
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I was a scorer in college. That was the one thing that I loved to do, I loved to score the basketball.
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Scorer
The One Thing
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I was very close to having my whole leg amputated. It was a life-altering event. It took years of rehab.
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Rehab
Amputated
Leg
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If you have a team that believes in one another that's ok, but you still need that individual motivation.
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Believes
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People associate strength with physical, and that's the wrong assumption. You're as strong as your mind is.
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Associate
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I've never been the type that's been highly athletically talented or can jump that high. I'm a guy who's 6-2.
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Highly
Jump
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I've always been around people who are older than myself, I've always played on basketball teams with older guys.
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Older Guys
Myself People Always
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I see the NCAA holding off as long as possible to continue to make money off of its players. It's almost like modern day slavery.
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Money
Long
Modern
Ncaa
Slavery
Almost
Possible
Continue
Players
Off
Holding
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Well, look, man, I know that Corey Sanders is a player that I've watched for a long time. I love him. I think he has that dog in him.
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Love Time Man
Corey
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When I got hurt - everybody knows I shattered my pelvis - all I thought about was running with my kids one day and being able to have a family.
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Shattered
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Only having a short dose of an NBA career, my entry into pro basketball started in 2003 and ended up being an entry way onto the world of business.
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Dose
Entry
Nba
Business World Way
Nba Career
Onto
Pro
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Legacies are defined not by what happened to you or how it happened. It's how you pick yourself back up and you continue to fight each and every day.
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Defined
Back Up
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If there is anything that my life has taught me is that life is unexpected and you're not always going to know the cards that you're going to be dealt.
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Cards
Unexpected
Life Me My Life
Life Always Me
Dealt
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LeBron's had so many legendary moments because he was in the NBA Finals eight or nine years straight, and because to that his brand will endure and keep growing.
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Endure
Finals
Legendary
Nba
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In dealing with athletes or celebrities or people in general, I think there's a tendency to get on their pedestal or their platform and just kind of blow the ink.
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Blow
Ink
Pedestal
Athletes
Celebrities
Just Kind
Tendency
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The rules within the educational system really teach you not push the boundaries, or not to think outside the box. They teach you to think inwardly about what's in the box.
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Boundaries
Educational
Inwardly
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When you're in the NBA, you think about playing time, how to make your coach happy or if you're winning. It really just took my focus off some of the most important things.
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Important Things
Nba
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I can't imagine the difficulty of going from coaching a college team where you control your own environment to coming to a pro-style where the players control the environment.
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Coaching
Difficulty
Your Control Own
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For me, the best part about doing television is the moment the red light comes on and you are live. As a former NBA player, performing live on air gives me the same exhilaration.
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Exhilaration
Former
Nba
Best Part
Red Light
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People love to make comments to me on Twitter or social media networks, and I say it's easy for you to make a comment because you're behind a screen where nobody can ever see you.
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Comment
Love Social Media Me
Networks
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I personally love watching greats like Matt Lauer, Scott Pelly, Howard Cossell, Bryant Gumble and others that can stimulate an intelligent, thoughtful, moving conversation or interview.
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Intelligent
Thoughtful
Bryant
Greats
Interview
Matt
Scott
Stimulate
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I don't really compartmentalize and put players in high school, college, or the pros. For everybody, it's physically and mentally, where are you? How do you evolve? Where's your game at?
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Mentally
Pros
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I'm a young-old guy. I go home, I don't need to go out, and I watch TV on my couch and relax, maybe have a cigar here or there. A couple of the coaches tell me, 'You're old school for someone who's young.'
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Coaches
Relax
Couch
Go Home
Old Guy
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I'd be remiss if I didn't say that a lot of my identity was formed around basketball, and after the accident I had a lot of animosity toward myself because I'd lost the one thing I wanted to do for my entire life.
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Animosity
Accident
Entire Life
Formed
The One Thing
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I hope people remind me of my accident every day of my life. Because that means I'm a prime example of somebody who had it and lost everything and may not have gotten it back in the same capacity but still reinvented myself.
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Accident
Life Hope Myself
Reinvented
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Look, Zion Williamson is Zion. Whenever you give somebody just one name, you know they're doing something pretty spectacular. Think about one name people. Madonna. Prince. Zion. He's in that category for what he's brought to the sport.
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Just One
Spectacular
Category
Look People Doing
Look People Name
Madonna
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Kobe Bryant demands his teammates to be the best every night, and he's not afraid to challenge them. He's not afraid to challenge them publicly, he's not afraid to challenge them in the locker room, and that's what you need from a leader.
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Every Night
Locker Room
Teammates
Bryant
Locker
Publicly
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Kyrie Irving, before he even played one game of college basketball, had 7,000 fans on Twitter. Seven thousand. So these kids these days are put on this pedestal up here. I really think it discourages the value of hard work and of patience.
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Pedestal
Thousand
Patience Work Hard Work
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It's funny because I think everybody when they see me, the first thing they say is, 'Man, you could have been a heck of a basketball player.' My response is, 'I have a heck of a life.' Basketball is such a minute thing in the big picture. I almost passed away at 21 years old.
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Basketball Player
Big Picture
Response
First Thing
Heck
The First Thing
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The only thing that can blow away the Michael Jordan sad face meme, is the Floyd Mayweather knockout meme. If Floyd Mayweather got knocked out - knocked out to the point where he is ice cold on the ground - I think that's the one meme that can just overwhelm the whole Jordan issue.
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Sad
Blow
Cold
Floyd Mayweather
Ice
Jordan
Michael
Floyd
Issue
Meme
Michael Jordan
Overwhelm
The Only Thing
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Five years before my accident in 2003, you saw Kobe and Shaq pull up to games on bikes. Michael Jordan owned a racing team. So it wasn't that weird that I was on a motorcycle, even though it was against team rules. You've got to live your life, you know? But yeah, I made a dumb choice.
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Dumb
Five
Games
Jordan
Motorcycle
Racing
Team
Yeah
Weird
Rules
Against
Accident
Life Your Weird
Bikes
Choice
Michael
Saw
Michael Jordan
Owned
Pull
Though
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There's different types of coaches in life. I don't have to be a coach on the basketball court. I can be a coach for businesses. I can be a coach for kids. I can be a coach for people who have gone through adversity, because everyone has had some type of damn accident in some form or capacity.
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Adversity
Basketball Court
Capacity
Coaches
Damn
Accident
Life Adversity People
Life People I Can
Different Types
Types
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I was so competitive, I wanted to win games but... I lost 13 games in my first three years in college. I lost 13 games in my first month in the league and it felt like nobody cared. So, eventually halfway through the season, I'm like 'well, why the hell do I care?' If they don't care, why do I care.
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Halfway
Cared
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I've been lucky enough with my NBA money to make some investments in some pretty cool things, whether it be partnering up with Ben Sturner and the Leverage Agency; being involved in an analytics company called Simatree; or creating a production company and working with brands and creating content in house.
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Agency
Brands
Nba
Ben
Leverage
Production Company
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