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Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.

Bill Russell

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
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
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
My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.
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Library Myself Possession Prize
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
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
Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.
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Finding Hard Time Love People
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
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
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
The only important statistic is the final score.
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Final Importance Score Statistics
Don’t knock the ball in the stands, keep it in your hands!
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Hands Stand Yourself
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
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

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