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Commitment separates those who live their dreams from those who live their lives regretting the opportunities they have squandered.

Bill Russell

The only important statistic is the final score.
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Final Importance Score Statistics
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 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
Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.
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Focus Mental Tough Victory
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
What’s more important than who’s going to be the first black manager is who’s going to be the first black sports editor of the New York Times.
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Black Important Manager
You can do anything you want to do if you want it bad enough.
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Bad Enough Yourself
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
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
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
If you can take something to levels that very few other people can reach, then what you’re doing becomes art.
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Art Level People Reach 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
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
The most important thing to me is the friends that I’ve made.
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Friendship Important Myself
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
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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