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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

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 magic to a great meeting is all of the work that’s done beforehand.
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Greatness Hands Magic Work

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