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The magic to a great meeting is all of the work that’s done beforehand.

Bill Russell

The only important statistic is the final score.
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Final Importance Score Statistics
Friendship is a full-time job.
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Friendship Job One Liner Time
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
Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.
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Athlete Durability Endurance Greatness Inspirational One Liner
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
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 magic to a great meeting is all of the work that’s done beforehand.
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Greatness Hands Magic Work
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
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
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
On females officiating in the NBA -Incompetence should not be confined to one sex.
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Female Oneself Sex
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
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
Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.
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Focus Mental Tough Victory
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 magic to a great meeting is all of the work that’s done beforehand.

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