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The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.

Bill Russell

Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.
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Finding Hard Time Love People
My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.
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Library Myself Possession Prize
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
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
Commitment separates those who live their dreams from those who live their lives regretting the opportunities they have squandered.
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Commitment Live Opportunity Regret Separate
The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.
BILL RUSSELL

Believe Block Ideas Opponent Yourself
You can do anything you want to do if you want it bad enough.
BILL RUSSELL

Bad Enough Yourself
People say it was the greatest individual rivalry they’ve ever seen. I agree with that. Let me assure you that if either Wilt’s or Russ’ coach had ever told one of them he couldn’t guard the other guy, he would have lost that player forever.
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Forever Greatness People Player Rivalry
The most important thing to me is the friends that I’ve made.
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Friendship Important Myself
To me, the most important part of winning is joy. You can win without joy, but winning that’s joyless is like eating in a four-star restaurant when you’re not hungry. Joy is a current of energy in your body, like chlorophyll or sunlight, that fills you up and makes you naturally want to do your best.
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Happiness Hungry Light Natural Restaurant Sun Win 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
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
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
On females officiating in the NBA -Incompetence should not be confined to one sex.
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Female Oneself Sex
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
Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.
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Attribute Creation Important Selfish Team

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