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We overreached our decision power. Sometimes our decisions have to fit the reality of the outside world.

Bill Russell

To me, the most important part of winning is joy. You can win without joy, but winning that’s joyless is like eating in a four-star restaurant when you’re not hungry. Joy is a current of energy in your body, like chlorophyll or sunlight, that fills you up and makes you naturally want to do your best.
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Happiness Hungry Light Natural Restaurant Sun Win 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
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
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 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
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
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
Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.
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Attribute Creation Important Selfish Team
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
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
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
Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.
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Finding Hard Time Love People
We learn to make a shell for ourselves when we are young and then spend the rest of our lives hoping for someone to reach inside and touch us. Just touch us-anything more than that would be too much for us to bear.
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Bear Learning Live Touch Young
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
The only important statistic is the final score.
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Final Importance Score Statistics

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