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Don’t knock the ball in the stands, keep it in your hands!

Bill Russell

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
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
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
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
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
The most important thing to me is the friends that I’ve made.
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Friendship Important Myself
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 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
Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.
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Focus Mental Tough Victory
Friendship is a full-time job.
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Friendship Job One Liner Time
The magic to a great meeting is all of the work that’s done beforehand.
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Greatness Hands Magic Work
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
Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.
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Attribute Creation Important Selfish Team
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

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