Wes Moore Quotations

What they've done in the Southern Conference the last four years has been amazing. If they had gone out any other way, it would have crushed me and probably hurt them, too. They deserved to go out this way.

I was disappointed with the way we started the game.

I think there is less pressure here than what we faced in the conference tournament.

Just a disappointing way to end the season. Kentucky did a good job, they're an excellent team, I don't feel like we played like we are capable of playing. ... It's a tough day. That's the way life works. I'm proud of what we accomplished over the last three or four months. I hate to have it end that way.

We really stress taking one game at a time and I think to have a streak like that, you have to focus with one game at a time in mind. Really, (the streak) doesn't have any effect on us.

We've had a nice run, and I'm real happy for our seniors. Only four conference losses for them. So if they hadn't gone out this way, it would have been crushing for me for no other reason than I just wanted it for them.

There was a lot of pressure after what happened a year ago and after going undefeated in the conference. It was a good way to finish it off.

It wasn't pretty. It was a closer game than the score indicates.

It was sloppy at times. But the mark of a good team is to win when you don't play well.

My mother is extraordinary; she's a superwoman, like so many other single mothers who are out there.

The importance of high expectations plays a big role.

The importance of education plays a huge role.

The work is not simply about an occupation .. but why you are here.

Fighting for your convictions is important. But finding peace is paramount.

I sat back, allowing Wes's words to sink in. Then I responded, "I guess it's hard sometimes to distinguish between second chances and last chances.

The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his.

They hit you with a knife, you find a gun

But really, where leadership is born and where leadership is really bred is...

Kids need to think that you care before they care what you think.

I just want to make sure that public service doesn't have to be an occupation, but it needs to be a way of life.

I just want to do as much as I can while I can, because none of us are promised anything.

Life's impermanence, I realized, is what makes every single day so precious. It's what shapes our time here. It's what makes it so important than not a single moment be wasted.

I began at some point to understand the whole idea of accountability and responsibility and leadership, and I think that was something that really birthed something in me, where I knew I wanted to be part of a larger equation in our society.

The common bond of humanity and decency that we share is stronger than any conflict, any adversity. Fighting for your convictions is important. But finding peace is paramount. Knowing when to fight and when to seek peace is wisdom. Ubuntu was right.

Potential is universal. Opportunity is not.

The expectations that others place on us help us form our expectations of ourselves.

Do you think that we're products of our environments? I think so, or maybe products of our expectations. Others' expectations of us or our expectations. I mean others' expectations that you take on as your own. I realize how difficult it is to seperate the two. The expectations that others place on us help us form our expectations of ourselves.

When it is time for you to leave this school, leave your job, or even leave this earth, you make sure you have worked hard to make sure it mattered you were even here.

We're not products of our environments, we're products of our expectations.

The young men in our city are not problems to be solved. They are opportunities to be unleashed.