24 Quotes by Sam Hinkie

I think it's pretty important that you learn how to keep your own scoreboard and how to be focused on what truly matters over the long term.

Nominally, I stated a company. Practically, it's a venture capital firm that allows me to be an investor in early stage companies.

Getting a star player in the NBA is not impossibly hard, but close. It requires either an incredible amount of luck, or an amazing amount of time, or some other way to try and get at it.

I can't afford to be quiet all the time. I learned that.

I think sometimes it's about just finding the measuring stick that's different than the one the world puts on you. It's finding the one in which you're held accountable and how you hold each other accountable; what a good job looks like in a particular situation and how to be better at your job than you were yesterday.

When the draft comes and goes, there's a certain set of players you acquire and there's a whole bunch of others you had interest in acquiring. That doesn't die.

Many in the world would have us choose safer options - keep this player, instead of taking a gamble on a player whose name you don't know. But when that player becomes Robert Covington, people are excited. We've chosen that sort of thing very often.

I'm a big believer that inclusiveness is helpful because everyone brings a different perspective.

I learned that Yao Ming broke his navicular bone like five days before the 2009 draft. From that moment on, all I thought about was going from zero stars to one star. How do you do it?