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

Bill Russell

To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, to love someone who loves you is everything.
BILL RUSSELL

Feeling True
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 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 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
Friendship is a full-time job.
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Friendship Job One Liner Time
Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.
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Athlete Durability Endurance Greatness Inspirational One Liner
Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.
BILL RUSSELL

Finding Hard Time Love People
The magic to a great meeting is all of the work that’s done beforehand.
BILL RUSSELL

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
Learning is a daily experience and a lifetime mission. I truly believe in the saying “We work to become, not to acquire.”
BILL RUSSELL

Experience Learning Mission Time Work
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
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
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
Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.
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Focus Mental Tough Victory
The only important statistic is the final score.
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Final Importance Score Statistics
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.
BILL RUSSELL

Bear Learning Live Touch Young

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