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We overreached our decision power. Sometimes our decisions have to fit the reality of the outside world.

Bill Russell

I think that David Stern is probably the greatest commissioner that any sport has ever had in the history of this country.
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Commission Country Greatness Thinking
To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, to love someone who loves you is everything.
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Feeling True
The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.
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Believe Block Ideas Opponent Yourself
What’s more important than who’s going to be the first black manager is who’s going to be the first black sports editor of the New York Times.
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Black Important Manager
Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.
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Focus Mental Tough Victory
What distinguishes a great player is his presence. When he goes on to the court, his presence dominates the atmosphere.
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Atmosphere Dominate Greatness Player Presence
The most important measure of how good a game I played was how much better I’d made my teammates play.
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Important Measurement Myself Play Team
Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.
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Attribute Creation Important Selfish Team
We learn to make a shell for ourselves when we are young and then spend the rest of our lives hoping for someone to reach inside and touch us. Just touch us-anything more than that would be too much for us to bear.
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Bear Learning Live Touch Young
If a guy pays you five dollars, you give him seven dollars worth of work.
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Man Pay Work Worth Yourself
Success is a result of consistent practice of winning skills and actions. There is nothing miraculous about the process. There is no luck involved.
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Action Luck Miracle Practice Result Skill Success
Don’t knock the ball in the stands, keep it in your hands!
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Hands Stand Yourself
I think what has happened to our basketball team, we’ve been badly distracted. They’re not reading too many positive things in the paper.
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Paper Positive Team Thinking
The magic to a great meeting is all of the work that’s done beforehand.
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Greatness Hands Magic Work
The only important statistic is the final score.
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Final Importance Score Statistics
If you really have integrity, there are very few people who can insult you, or honor you.
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Insult Integrity People Respect Yourself

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