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Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.

Bill Russell

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Friendship is a full-time job.
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Friendship Job One Liner Time
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
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
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
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
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
Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.
BILL RUSSELL

Focus Mental Tough Victory
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

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