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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

I think that David Stern is probably the greatest commissioner that any sport has ever had in the history of this country.
BILL RUSSELL

Commission Country Greatness Thinking
You got to have the killer instinct. If you do not have it, forget about basketball and go into social psychology or something. If you sometimes wonder if you’ve got it, you ain’t got it. No pussycats, please.
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Instinct Kill Social Wonder Yourself
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
Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.
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Focus Mental Tough Victory
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
We couldn’t sustain it. And they got a lot of kids that can shoot. We just couldn’t close out well enough.
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Children Close Enough Sustainable
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
Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.
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Finding Hard Time Love People
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
Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.
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Attribute Creation Important Selfish Team
If a guy pays you five dollars, you give him seven dollars worth of work.
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Man Pay Work Worth Yourself
My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.
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Library Myself Possession Prize
On females officiating in the NBA -Incompetence should not be confined to one sex.
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Female Oneself Sex
You can do anything you want to do if you want it bad enough.
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Bad Enough 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.
BILL RUSSELL

Hard Myself Pretty Run

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