Willie Cauley-Stein Quotes

Willie Cauley-Stein

Profession : Athlete

Birth : August 18, 1993

I love the game, but I'm not going to play the game for the rest of my life, so you need something else you're good at, another passion. You have to be well-rounded, or else you're going to burn out, and you'll lose passion for what you're doing.

Willie Cauley-Stein

I'm not your average athlete. I'm good at other things. I'm not just a basketball player. I'm multi-talented.

Willie Cauley-Stein

The only problem that I had in my younger years and in college was not knowing if I had the confidence on the offensive side to just take over.

Willie Cauley-Stein

If I really want to be the best player in the country, all I have to do is work at it, and eventually, you're gonna get there.

Willie Cauley-Stein

I see myself as the No. 1 player in the draft, but it is what it is. You can just take it day-by-day, put in the work, and the draft is going to be the outcome of whatever the draft is.

Willie Cauley-Stein

How you balance class and school and other stuff outside, then working out twice a day - as a freshman, you're thrown right into that. It's good for you. It makes you go through adversity.

Willie Cauley-Stein

The chip comes from people saying I'm not good enough, or I can't score, or I'm not a real basketball player.

Willie Cauley-Stein

I don't know how you can be an All-American in this country and not be a good basketball player.

Willie Cauley-Stein

Nobody else can tell you what you are.

Willie Cauley-Stein

It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks. You know what you've done and what you've been through to get to where you are.

Willie Cauley-Stein

A lot of the quote-unquote interests that I have are not really interests.

Willie Cauley-Stein

Every game is a playoff game.

Willie Cauley-Stein

Basketball is everything, but I love fashion, too!

Willie Cauley-Stein

I have a tattoo on my arm that says, 'The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.'

Willie Cauley-Stein

Every possession matters, and everything goes down to the wire.

Willie Cauley-Stein

I come from a town of 800 people, and you just listen to Jay Z there. You never think about meeting him. Then suddenly, one day, you're in his office, hearing stories about his whole journey.

Willie Cauley-Stein

I probably started painting when I was in preschool.

Willie Cauley-Stein

Whenever I really want to, I can paint. It kinda just goes by my emotions and feelings at the time.

Willie Cauley-Stein