“My life is pretty calculated.” — Rajon Rondo Quote

My life is pretty calculated.

I feel like, when I get a certain amount of minutes, and when the coaches allow me to be me on the court, I'm Rondo. There's no 'Playoff Rondo.'

Talk is cheap, but when you go out there and prove it - you're the first one to show up for practice, and you're the last to leave - that's how you lead by example.

I just want a ring. Bottom line.

I try to be two or three steps ahead of my guy, my opponent.

I have to stop and think about everything I do. I'm very calculated in a lot of ways.

In the media business and as a creative executive, if you don't take risks, you're dead in the water. Calculated risk taking is essential for success. No one said it was easy.

Without being overtly political about it, if people with severe disabilities are calculated in societal terms purely as a monetised unit, in terms of how much they cost in terms of care, you lose an important sense of who they are and the effect they have.

Maybe we're kind of predisposed to think that anything a politician does is calculated and therefore suspect.