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You can do anything you want to do if you want it bad enough.

Bill Russell

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

Hands Stand 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
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
If a guy pays you five dollars, you give him seven dollars worth of work.
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Man Pay Work Worth Yourself
Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.
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Athlete Durability Endurance Greatness Inspirational One Liner
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
Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.
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Finding Hard Time Love People
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
On females officiating in the NBA -Incompetence should not be confined to one sex.
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Female Oneself Sex
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
Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.
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Focus Mental Tough Victory
You can do anything you want to do if you want it bad enough.
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Bad Enough Yourself
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
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
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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