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Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.

Bill Russell

The only important statistic is the final score.
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Final Importance Score Statistics
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
Friendship is a full-time job.
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Friendship Job One Liner Time
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
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
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
The most important thing to me is the friends that I’ve made.
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Friendship Important Myself
Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.
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Finding Hard Time Love People
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
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
I think that David Stern is probably the greatest commissioner that any sport has ever had in the history of this country.
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Commission Country Greatness Thinking
If a guy pays you five dollars, you give him seven dollars worth of work.
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Man Pay Work Worth Yourself
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
You can do anything you want to do if you want it bad enough.
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Bad Enough Yourself
Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.
BILL RUSSELL

Attribute Creation Important Selfish Team

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