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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

Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.
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Attribute Creation Important Selfish Team
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
Don’t knock the ball in the stands, keep it in your hands!
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Hands Stand Yourself
If you can take something to levels that very few other people can reach, then what you’re doing becomes art.
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Art Level People Reach Yourself
On females officiating in the NBA -Incompetence should not be confined to one sex.
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Female Oneself Sex
You can do anything you want to do if you want it bad enough.
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Bad Enough 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
The only important statistic is the final score.
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Final Importance Score Statistics
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 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
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
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
My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.
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Library Myself Possession Prize
Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.
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Athlete Durability Endurance Greatness Inspirational One Liner
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 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

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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