Sheryl Swoopes Quotes

You have to be positive, and I'm not just talking about athletics, this also applies to life.

Sheryl Swoopes

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• I met wonderful people playing in the NBA. Whether it is the officials, the scorekeepers, all the people who work for the NBA, not just for the Lakers, but I'm talking about just for the league itself.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Work
  • Talking

• If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Mother

• A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.

  

  Patricia Neal
  • Strong
  • Wonder
  • Positive

• I think what is happening is I think first of all there is confidence in the U.K. economy. We're in a German rather than a Greek position in international financial markets, which is very positive and keeps our debt service costs down, and we're also beginning to see real evidence of rebalancing.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Real
  • Beginning
  • Positive

• We will all be gone one day. Not as a negative thing - as a positive thing, too, you know, and we should leave something behind ourselves.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Day
  • Positive
  • Negative

• If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Best
  • Positive
  • Effort

• Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • World
  • Good
  • History

• In my work in Haiti, I've seen the hugely positive effects that happen when people come together to build something in the middle of the most desperate situations.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Work
  • Together

• I used to be one of the lead actors of a theatre group called Hetu when I was in medical school. Prithvi Theatre was our stomping ground. I'd got many positive reviews.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • School
  • Positive
  • Theatre

• I've always wanted to create shoes that were positive and happy.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Happy
  • Positive
  • Shoes

• I try cars; I try them all. Cars need to be sexy, because we're not talking about biscuits here.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Sexy
  • Try
  • Talking

• I'm not sure how to describe my style. A lot of my work is dark and looks a bit sad, which is strange because I'm such a smiley, over-the-top positive guy who wears gold shoes most days.

  

  Aaron Huey
  • Work
  • Guy
  • Style

• Always go into meetings or negotiations with a positive attitude. Tell yourself you're going to make this the best deal for all parties.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Best
  • Positive
  • Attitude

• Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Taken
  • Positive
  • Growth

• I've always been motivated more by negative comments than by positive ones. I know what I do well. Tell me what I don't do well.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Me
  • Positive
  • Motivated

• Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly positive to say.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Bad
  • Positive
  • Idea

• Everything has positive and negative consequences.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Positive
  • Negative

• Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Bad
  • Positive
  • Try

• I started talking about things that everybody could relate to. And that's not to say I deserted my roots, I just found a way to talk about things in a broad way.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Way
  • Talking
  • Roots

• I just want to do everything. I don't want to sound soppy or too cliched, but that's the way it is.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Sound
  • Cliched
  • Soppy

• Anyone who says that money cannot buy happiness has had very little success with either one.

  

  Bill Ballance
  • Money
  • Success
  • Happiness

• There were vast spaces in which his spirit could reach out, touching this, possessing that, of a million crowding sensations, but gradually at first, then rapidly, he had found himself reaching out to ever-receding mirages, alone in a void.

  

  Attia Hosain
  • Sensations
  • Spaces

• We can't have a third Obama term, which is what electing Hillary Clinton would do.

  

  John Barrasso

• You have to be positive, and I'm not just talking about athletics, this also applies to life.

  

  Sheryl Swoopes
  • Positive
  • Talking
  • Athletics