When NBA all-star Grant Hill married Tamia, a Grammy-nominated R&B singer, in 1999, the couple looked forward to years of health and happiness. Little did they know, their promise to stand together in sickness and in health would be put to the test shortly after saying “I do.” Read the rest of this entry »
"Something All Our Own", The Grant Hill Collection of African American Art.
Tamia is a chart-topping R&B artist with four Grammy nominations. 
- "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."
Bill Cosby - "The important thing is never to stop questioning."
Albert Einstein - "Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it. "
By Song of Solomon VIII,7 - "One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. "
Maya Angelou - "Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values."
Ayn Rand - "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. "
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) - "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops."
Henry Brooks Adams - "But did thee feel the earth move? "
Ernest [Miller] Hemingway (1899 - 1961) - "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
Eleanor Roosevelt - "Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought."
Albert Szent-Gyorgi , 1937 Nobel Prize winner - "God puts something good and loveable in every man His hands create."
Mark Twain (1835-1910) - "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company."
George Washington - "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today."
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 - 1968) - "Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true!"
Elizabeth Barret Browning - "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
Theodore Roosevelt - "One good thing about music, when it hits, you feel no pain."
Bob Marley - "Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder."
Nikita Khruschev - "A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on."
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) - "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
Winston Churchill, Sir (1874-1965) - "Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever"
Mahatma Gandhi - "It's kind of fun to do the impossible."
Walt Disney - "Wisdom begins in wonder."
Socrates - The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
- "You can't shake hands with a clenched fist."
Indira Gandhi - "Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm."
Abraham Lincoln - "The only way to have a friend is to be one."
Ralph Waldo Emerson - "Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values."
Ayn Rand - "Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society."
William Makepeace Thackeray - "The truth is more important than the facts."
Frank Lloyd Wright - "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality."
Henry David Thoreau - "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter."
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - "I never think of the future - it comes soon enough."
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) - "Do or do not. There is no try."
Yoda, character in "The Empire Strikes Back" - "Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree."
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr - "Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."
Eleanor Roosevelt - "Keep up the good work and only good can come out of it."
Anonymous - "I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed."
Booker T. Washington - "Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true!"
Elizabeth Barret Browning - "There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
Maya Angelou (1928 - ) - "A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush"
English Proverb - "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends"
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr - "One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest."
Maya Angelou (1928 - )
Grant and Tamia – Guests on Oprah
November 19th, 2007NBA Stars and their Moms go Head-to-Head on “Family Feud”
November 6th, 2007Teams Raise $65,000 for NBA Cares’ Community Partners
Burbank, CA, Nov. 5, 2007– For the first time in its 30-year history, FAMILY FEUD is hooping it up and fast-breaking for charity with the special sweeps event premiere of NBA Players vs. NBA Mothers Week. The first of five daily episodes will begin airing in national syndication on Monday, November 12th (check local listings), just two weeks after the tip-off of the NBA’s 62nd season. Read the rest of this entry »
Survey said: Charity
November 5th, 2007We just sort of assumed since Grant Hill’s mom, Janet, is a former teacher who now is vice president of a business consulting firm and sits on the boards of three companies and the Fuqua School of Business at Duke, that she probably hasn’t had much time to watch television game shows like Family Feud.
Turns out we were mistaken.
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Suns’ Hill Uninterested in Style Points
November 1st, 2007Grant Hill, the injury-plagued star who has joined the Suns in their bid for an NBA championship, tells AOL’s Dave Hollander that the focus should be on winning the right way even in this “highlight generation.”
DAVE HOLLANDER: What does Steve Nash mean to your game?
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Flight of the Phoenix: Interview with Grant Hill
October 12th, 2007
Many athletes are not afforded a second chance and ultimately languish among the has beens and what ifs. Grant Hill has become the soul model for athletes that haven’t the courage to fight and find their true sense of career satisfaction in the midst of adversity. Read the rest of this entry »
New Baby Born
August 9th, 2007By Karu F. Daniels, AOL Black Voices
Tamia and Grant Hill welcomed a new baby girl into their family on Aug. 9 in Orlando, Fl.Young black power couple Tamia and Grant Hill has welcomed the latest addition to their family today. Read the rest of this entry »
Newest Sun longing to be in championship situation again
July 12th, 2007By Jerry Brown, Tribune
MORE TO PLAY FOR: Grant Hill, left, and Suns coach Mike D’Antoni wait for a press conference to begin on Wednesday in which they officially announced Hill signed to play for Phoenix. Read the rest of this entry »
One More Hill to Climb
July 12th, 2007All-Star forward Grant Hill was all smiles at the press conference introducing him as the newest Sun on Wednesday morning.
(NBAE Photos)
By Jerry Brown
He is rich beyond his wildest dreams, with the kind of business mind to keep it growing and growing. Read the rest of this entry »
Suns Sign Grant Hill
July 11th, 2007By ANDREW BAGNATO, AP Sports Writer
PHOENIX
As an unrestricted free agent, Grant Hill had plenty of options. He chose the Phoenix Suns because he wants the same thing they do: an NBA title. A championship trophy has eluded the Suns since their birth in 1968 and Hill during an injury-plagued 13-year career. Read the rest of this entry »
Oklahoma Kid “OK” With Grant Hill Wearing No. 33
July 11th, 2007Grant Hill proudly displays the No. 33 he’ll be wearing for the Phoenix Suns next season. (Jeramie McPeek/Suns Photos)
By Brad G. Faye, Suns.com
While to professional sports organizations it has always been the name on the jersey which matters most, for many professional athletes, the number has at times appeared to be just as important. Read the rest of this entry »
