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If Shakespeare can compare all of life to a stage, maybe it’s not odd to believe that part of the play can take place on a basketball court.

Bill Russell

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
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 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
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
Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.
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Focus Mental Tough Victory
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
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
Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.
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Attribute Creation Important Selfish Team
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
On females officiating in the NBA -Incompetence should not be confined to one sex.
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Female Oneself Sex
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
My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.
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Library Myself Possession Prize
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
Don’t knock the ball in the stands, keep it in your hands!
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Hands Stand Yourself
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
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

If Shakespeare can compare all of life to a stage, maybe it’s not odd to believe that part of the play can take place on a basketball court.

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