I come into the game prepared, put the work in, put the time and effort into my game.
You can get all the knowledge and wisdom and advice you want. But, it’s up to you to put in the work.
I’m like, ‘No, I don’t wanna be the next Shaq. I wanna be Kobe.’ So I always just dribbled the ball everywhere I went… It was kind of a natural thing. I don’t even work on it, honestly.
A lot of things about my way of leadership is to be vocal, but I try to lead by example – how I approach work and study the game. Do the things the right way. It’s a great responsibility I love to have.
I think when you are older, you should be slowing down, but I wouldn’t like not to work as I would get rather miserable.
One of the things big law partners say when they talk about Atrium is that we get people who wouldn’t make partner. And I say, they’re the people who are doing the work for you anyway, but they transition out because they hate the lifestyle.
I try to work the hardest I can without burning myself out. It’s not that I think working all the time is the key to success. It’s just the way I was raised.
I think that’s why a lot of people are very lonely and get ill when they’re older, because I think loneliness and having no motivation, nothing to work towards… I think it kills you.
With Justin.TV, infinite people told us that it wouldn’t work, and to some extent they were right. But it was still a good investment.
I find little flaws I have in practice, I work on those and go to the gym or I eat better.
Once I was away from track and field, I was able to realize that life is something you really have to work on.
If you think about corporate legal work that’s done today, some part of it is art and then some of it is repeatable processes.
Technically, I am not bad. What I needed to work on was mainly on fitness and my court coverage.
The players notice that you love football. You still like to have a ball at your feet in training. Do you come to work with a joie de vivre? I can’t give off the impression that I am under brutal pressure or fear that something could go wrong.
From the outside, you often only see the person who posts pictures of his yacht. But what Sami Khedira told me about Ronaldo’s professional approach to work, for example, is impressive. He has to be an incredible training animal, the first to come, the last to leave. He is also a very warm guy. That mix is extremely exciting.
I’ve had tragedy in my life, but I think that gives me a depth that I can bring to my work. I’d like to see more older women on TV because they can bring that life experience and emotion to a performance.
I definitely work very hard for a lot of the things that I have, and as you can see, I’m out here hustling, and I’ve always been working.
I work like a baker. I mix things, put them in the oven and see if I like what comes out.
Just make sure you have fun in everything you do so when you work your butt off, it doesn’t feel like work.