If you put your effort and concentration and to play into your potential to be the best that you can be, I don't care what the scoreboard says at the end of the game. In my book, we're going to be winners.

The talent for so many players today, the talent and the spotlight, it's taking them to heights that their character's not strong enough to support.

I'm one of those set goals of cheap ones.

I talked about faith, passion, obviously the drive with the guys that I've been around,

and the guys that surround me every single day.

If I want to be one of the best, I've got to play with and against the best.

Okay, so that which gets praised, gets repeated.

You're listening to the Hardwood Hustle, brought you by PGC basketball.

Players, thank for tuning in. You're listening to the Hardwood Hustle brought to you by PGC basketball. Players, thank for tuning in. You're listening to the Hardwood Hustle. Special thanks to our friends over at PGC basketball. Lead them up and Team Snap for all their support of the Hardwood Hustle. Today we're going to be talking about a phrase that I want to challenge you to get rid of. But it's a phrase I hear quite often.

In fact, you hear quite often all throughout the country in the basketball space that I am using,

that basketball is my only way out, TJ.

You hear that so commonly said, basketball is my only way out.

You hear a player, he's growing up in a less than ideal circumstances at home and in a community that's less than idea and there's temptation around every corner and distractions and

things wanting to bring them down and basketball is the only way out of here. And I need it, right?

Because if not, man, I don't know. Right. You hear that all the time and it kills me.

I have a major problem with that statement.

And if you're one that has said that, I want to challenge you to rethink saying that statement.

Now, you can say, well, it's just a statement.

There's power in your words, right?

And that thought process feeds belief. Unfortunately, that is a

limited belief, right? That is a limiting belief. You talk about that often, Sam Allen,

Mono, you all talk about that a lot in PGC about limiting beliefs. When you say this is my only way

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