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To me, the most important part of winning is joy. You can win without joy, but winning that’s joyless is like eating in a four-star restaurant when you’re not hungry. Joy is a current of energy in your body, like chlorophyll or sunlight, that fills you up and makes you naturally want to do your best.

Bill Russell

On females officiating in the NBA -Incompetence should not be confined to one sex.
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Female Oneself Sex
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
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.
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Hard Myself Pretty Run
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
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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Commitment Live Opportunity Regret Separate
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
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
Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.
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Attribute Creation Important Selfish Team
To me, the most important part of winning is joy. You can win without joy, but winning that’s joyless is like eating in a four-star restaurant when you’re not hungry. Joy is a current of energy in your body, like chlorophyll or sunlight, that fills you up and makes you naturally want to do your best.
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Happiness Hungry Light Natural Restaurant Sun Win Yourself
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
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
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
The most important thing to me is the friends that I’ve made.
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Friendship Important Myself
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

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