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I’ve been fortunate to meet and work with a lot of really smart people. The thing that strikes me most about them is how they continue to explore and learn every day. I have tried to apply that approach in my modest career as well.

Bill Russell

Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.
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Focus Mental Tough Victory
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
The most important thing to me is the friends that I’ve made.
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Friendship Important Myself
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
You got to have the killer instinct. If you do not have it, forget about basketball and go into social psychology or something. If you sometimes wonder if you’ve got it, you ain’t got it. No pussycats, please.
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Instinct Kill Social Wonder Yourself
We couldn’t sustain it. And they got a lot of kids that can shoot. We just couldn’t close out well enough.
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Children Close Enough Sustainable
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
Don’t knock the ball in the stands, keep it in your hands!
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Hands Stand 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
Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.
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Athlete Durability Endurance Greatness Inspirational One Liner
If you can take something to levels that very few other people can reach, then what you’re doing becomes art.
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Art Level People Reach Yourself
The only important statistic is the final score.
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Final Importance Score Statistics
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
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
I’ve been fortunate to meet and work with a lot of really smart people. The thing that strikes me most about them is how they continue to explore and learn every day. I have tried to apply that approach in my modest career as well.
BILL RUSSELL

Career Fortunate Learning Myself People Smart Work
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

I’ve been fortunate to meet and work with a lot of really smart people. The thing that strikes me most about them is how they continue to explore and learn every day. I have tried to apply that approach in my modest career as well.

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