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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

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
Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.
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Finding Hard Time Love People
You can do anything you want to do if you want it bad enough.
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Bad Enough Yourself
Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.
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Focus Mental Tough Victory
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
If a guy pays you five dollars, you give him seven dollars worth of work.
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Man Pay Work Worth Yourself
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 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
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
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
Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.
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Athlete Durability Endurance Greatness Inspirational One Liner
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
The only important statistic is the final score.
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Final Importance Score Statistics
Don’t knock the ball in the stands, keep it in your hands!
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Hands Stand Yourself
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
To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, to love someone who loves you is everything.
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Feeling True

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

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