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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

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
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
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
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
My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.
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Library Myself Possession Prize
The magic to a great meeting is all of the work that’s done beforehand.
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Greatness Hands Magic Work
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
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
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
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
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
Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.
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Attribute Creation Important Selfish Team
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
Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.
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Finding Hard Time Love People
People say it was the greatest individual rivalry they’ve ever seen. I agree with that. Let me assure you that if either Wilt’s or Russ’ coach had ever told one of them he couldn’t guard the other guy, he would have lost that player forever.
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Forever Greatness People Player Rivalry
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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