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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.

Bill Russell

We overreached our decision power. Sometimes our decisions have to fit the reality of the outside world.
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Decision Power Reality World
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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Champion Heart Motivational Pain Stress
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
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
You can do anything you want to do if you want it bad enough.
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Bad Enough Yourself
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
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
Friendship is a full-time job.
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Friendship Job One Liner Time
The most important thing to me is the friends that I’ve made.
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Friendship Important Myself
On females officiating in the NBA -Incompetence should not be confined to one sex.
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Female Oneself Sex
The magic to a great meeting is all of the work that’s done beforehand.
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Greatness Hands Magic Work
My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.
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Library Myself Possession Prize
The only important statistic is the final score.
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Final Importance Score Statistics
If a guy pays you five dollars, you give him seven dollars worth of work.
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Man Pay Work Worth Yourself
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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Father Myself Work Worth
Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.
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Focus Mental Tough Victory

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