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

Bill Russell

To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, to love someone who loves you is everything.
BILL RUSSELL

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
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
The only important statistic is the final score.
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Final Importance Score Statistics
Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.
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Athlete Durability Endurance Greatness Inspirational One Liner
My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.
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Library Myself Possession Prize
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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Compare Life Play Stage
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
You can do anything you want to do if you want it bad enough.
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Bad Enough Yourself
Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.
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Finding Hard Time Love People
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
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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Career Fortunate Learning Myself People Smart Work
If a guy pays you five dollars, you give him seven dollars worth of work.
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Man Pay Work Worth Yourself
On females officiating in the NBA -Incompetence should not be confined to one sex.
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Female Oneself Sex
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

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