If you can take something to levels that very few other people can reach, then what you’re doing becomes art.
BILL RUSSELLThe 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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Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.
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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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Commitment separates those who live their dreams from those who live their lives regretting the opportunities they have squandered.
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We overreached our decision power. Sometimes our decisions have to fit the reality of the outside world.
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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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Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.
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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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Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.
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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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Don’t knock the ball in the stands, keep it in your hands!
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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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What distinguishes a great player is his presence. When he goes on to the court, his presence dominates the atmosphere.
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The morale and the camaraderie that we had for one another earlier in the year is starting to come under duress because of all the losses. Some of the guys are feeling the pressure now from the last year when they were not successful.
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Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.
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If you really have integrity, there are very few people who can insult you, or honor you.
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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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The only important statistic is the final score.
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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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The most important thing to me is the friends that I’ve made.
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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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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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My father once told me that anyone who worked for three dollars an hour owed it to himself to put in four dollars’ worth of work.
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Friendship is a full-time job.
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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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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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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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