Chris Paul says confidence isn’t a personality trait, it’s evidence you’ve put in the work
“I’d be lying if I said that I wasn’t confident because you have to be confident. And the only way that you get confident is you got to put in the work.”
“You really have to put in the work. When you show up for that Spanish test or that math test and you look at the test and you’re like, ‘Oh, I’m good,’ it’s because you prepared.”
“When I went out to a game, I knew I put the work in. I knew I ate right. I knew I did all the lifting. I knew I got my shots up. So now it was just my opportunity to showcase it to the world. It’s all the unseen hours, all the unseen late nights and early mornings.”
“I feel like I never got comfortable. I never got comfortable. My rookie year I played against Steve Nash, and Steve Nash was the staple for point guards. I couldn’t sleep the night before the game because he was how you measured yourself.”
“Fast-forward to my third, fourth year in the NBA, I felt like I had become sort of the staple as far as point guards and what guys wanted to achieve to be.”
“The way my brain works, even when I got to year six, year eight, 10, I was like, ‘Okay, now if I’m where Steve Nash was, who’s the young kid coming in trying to go at me the same way?’ But I was like, ‘No. There’s no way he’s going to be more hungry than I am.’ That’s why I always tried to keep that edge.”
𝗦𝗲𝘅 feels different when you 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗺𝗮𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗯𝗮𝘁𝗲.
𝗚𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗱𝗿𝘂𝗻𝗸 feels different when you have 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗯𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲.
𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘆 feels different when you’re 𝗿𝗲𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳 for your 𝗮𝗺𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 and 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲.
𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗽 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝗹 feels different when you keep a 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘁 𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘁.
Dear son, 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘧𝘶𝘯.