Jay Williams Quotes

Jay Williams

Profession : Athlete

Birth : September 10, 1981

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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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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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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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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There's nothing like watching basketball being played at its finest.

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My story's been an open book for a long time, no pun intended.

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I am a point guard. It's a job that I'm not scared of.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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I don't think forcing an athlete to stay in school does anything for the athlete.

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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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It's not always the coach that gets the best out of the talent. It's the best player who gets his team to play the hardest.

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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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