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If you can take something to levels that very few other people can reach, then what you’re doing becomes art.

Bill Russell

If Shakespeare can compare all of life to a stage, maybe it’s not odd to believe that part of the play can take place on a basketball court.
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Compare Life Play Stage
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
The most important measure of how good a game I played was how much better I’d made my teammates play.
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Important Measurement Myself Play Team
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
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
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
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
Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.
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Finding Hard Time Love People
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
The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.
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Believe Block Ideas Opponent Yourself
Don’t knock the ball in the stands, keep it in your hands!
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Hands Stand Yourself
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
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

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