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Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.

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
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
You can do anything you want to do if you want it bad enough.
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Bad Enough 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
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
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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Career Fortunate Learning Myself People Smart Work
The magic to a great meeting is all of the work that’s done beforehand.
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Greatness Hands Magic Work
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
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
Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.
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Finding Hard Time Love People
Friendship is a full-time job.
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Friendship Job One Liner Time
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
On females officiating in the NBA -Incompetence should not be confined to one sex.
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Female Oneself Sex

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