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Don’t knock the ball in the stands, keep it in your hands!

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 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
Remember that basketball is a game of habits. If you make the other guy deviate from his habits, you’ve got him.
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Game Habit Himself Remember Yourself
Don’t knock the ball in the stands, keep it in your hands!
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Hands Stand Yourself
The last five or six days, I’ve been running. The last two days, I’ve been running pretty hard. Everybody’s got to be someplace.
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Hard Myself Pretty Run
If you can take something to levels that very few other people can reach, then what you’re doing becomes art.
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Art Level People Reach Yourself
My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.
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Library Myself Possession Prize
Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.
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Focus Mental Tough Victory
We couldn’t sustain it. And they got a lot of kids that can shoot. We just couldn’t close out well enough.
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Children Close Enough Sustainable
Friendship is a full-time job.
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Friendship Job One Liner Time
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
My father once told me that anyone who worked for three dollars an hour owed it to himself to put in four dollars’ worth of work.
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Father Myself Work Worth
We overreached our decision power. Sometimes our decisions have to fit the reality of the outside world.
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Decision Power Reality World
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
Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.
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Attribute Creation Important Selfish Team

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