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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.

Bill Russell

The only important statistic is the final score.
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Final Importance Score Statistics
You can do anything you want to do if you want it bad enough.
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Bad Enough 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
Don’t knock the ball in the stands, keep it in your hands!
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Hands Stand 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
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
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
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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Paper Positive Team Thinking
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
What distinguishes a great player is his presence. When he goes on to the court, his presence dominates the atmosphere.
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Atmosphere Dominate Greatness Player Presence
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
Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.
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Attribute Creation Important Selfish Team
Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.
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Focus Mental Tough Victory
Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.
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Finding Hard Time Love People
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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Command Early Loss Moral Pressure Success

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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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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