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The only important statistic is the final score.

Bill Russell

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
The most important thing to me is the friends that I’ve made.
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Friendship Important Myself
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 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
Don’t knock the ball in the stands, keep it in your hands!
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Hands Stand Yourself
Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.
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Finding Hard Time Love People
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
Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.
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Attribute Creation Important Selfish Team
Friendship is a full-time job.
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Friendship Job One Liner Time
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
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
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
My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.
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Library Myself Possession Prize
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
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
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

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