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My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.

Bill Russell

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
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
The magic to a great meeting is all of the work that’s done beforehand.
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Greatness Hands Magic Work
The most important thing to me is the friends that I’ve made.
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Friendship Important Myself
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
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
Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.
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Attribute Creation Important Selfish Team
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
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
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
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
Friendship is a full-time job.
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Friendship Job One Liner Time
If a guy pays you five dollars, you give him seven dollars worth of work.
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Man Pay Work Worth Yourself
I’ve been fortunate to meet and work with a lot of really smart people. The thing that strikes me most about them is how they continue to explore and learn every day. I have tried to apply that approach in my modest career as well.
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Career Fortunate Learning Myself People Smart Work
Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.
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Athlete Durability Endurance Greatness Inspirational One Liner

My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.

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