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Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.

Bill Russell

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
Don’t knock the ball in the stands, keep it in your hands!
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Hands Stand Yourself
On females officiating in the NBA -Incompetence should not be confined to one sex.
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Female Oneself Sex
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
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
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
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
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
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
Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.
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Finding Hard Time Love People
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
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
You can do anything you want to do if you want it bad enough.
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Bad Enough Yourself

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