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

Bill Russell

Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.
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Attribute Creation Important Selfish Team
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 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
The magic to a great meeting is all of the work that’s done beforehand.
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Greatness Hands Magic Work
Don’t knock the ball in the stands, keep it in your hands!
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Hands Stand Yourself
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 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
The only important statistic is the final score.
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Final Importance Score Statistics
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 most important thing to me is the friends that I’ve made.
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Friendship Important Myself
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
Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.
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Focus Mental Tough Victory
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
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
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
Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.
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Athlete Durability Endurance Greatness Inspirational One Liner

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

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