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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

Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.
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Focus Mental Tough Victory
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
You can do anything you want to do if you want it bad enough.
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Bad Enough Yourself
The magic to a great meeting is all of the work that’s done beforehand.
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Greatness Hands Magic Work
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
If a guy pays you five dollars, you give him seven dollars worth of work.
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Man Pay Work Worth Yourself
Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.
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Athlete Durability Endurance Greatness Inspirational One Liner
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
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 thing to me is the friends that I’ve made.
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Friendship Important Myself

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