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The most important measure of how good a game I played was how much better I’d made my teammates play.

Bill Russell

Remember that basketball is a game of habits. If you make the other guy deviate from his habits, you’ve got him.
BILL RUSSELL

Game Habit Himself Remember Yourself
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
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
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
Learning is a daily experience and a lifetime mission. I truly believe in the saying “We work to become, not to acquire.”
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Experience Learning Mission Time Work
Friendship is a full-time job.
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Friendship Job One Liner Time
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 most important thing to me is the friends that I’ve made.
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Friendship Important Myself
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
Heart in champions has to do with the depth of our motivation and how well your mind and body react to pressure – that is, being able to do what you do best under maximum pain and stress.
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Champion Heart Motivational Pain Stress
Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.
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Focus Mental Tough Victory
If a guy pays you five dollars, you give him seven dollars worth of work.
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Man Pay Work Worth Yourself
The morale and the camaraderie that we had for one another earlier in the year is starting to come under duress because of all the losses. Some of the guys are feeling the pressure now from the last year when they were not successful.
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Command Early Loss Moral Pressure 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 magic to a great meeting is all of the work that’s done beforehand.
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Greatness Hands Magic Work
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

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