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If Shakespeare can compare all of life to a stage, maybe it’s not odd to believe that part of the play can take place on a basketball court.

Bill Russell

If a guy pays you five dollars, you give him seven dollars worth of work.
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Man Pay Work Worth Yourself
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
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
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
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
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
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
Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.
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Athlete Durability Endurance Greatness Inspirational One Liner
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
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
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 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
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
Friendship is a full-time job.
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Friendship Job One Liner Time
You can do anything you want to do if you want it bad enough.
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Bad Enough Yourself

If Shakespeare can compare all of life to a stage, maybe it’s not odd to believe that part of the play can take place on a basketball court.

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If Shakespeare can compare all of life to a stage, maybe it’s not odd to believe that part of the play can take place on a basketball court.

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