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

Bill Russell

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
If you really have integrity, there are very few people who can insult you, or honor you.
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Insult Integrity People Respect Yourself
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
If a guy pays you five dollars, you give him seven dollars worth of work.
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Man Pay Work Worth 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
Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.
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Focus Mental Tough Victory
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
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
We overreached our decision power. Sometimes our decisions have to fit the reality of the outside world.
BILL RUSSELL

Decision Power Reality World
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
The magic to a great meeting is all of the work that’s done beforehand.
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Greatness Hands Magic Work
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
Friendship is a full-time job.
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Friendship Job One Liner Time
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

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