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Friendship is a full-time job.

Bill Russell

You can do anything you want to do if you want it bad enough.
BILL RUSSELL

Bad Enough 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 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
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
Don’t knock the ball in the stands, keep it in your hands!
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Hands Stand 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
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
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
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
My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.
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Library Myself Possession Prize
If a guy pays you five dollars, you give him seven dollars worth of work.
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Man Pay Work Worth Yourself
Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.
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Focus Mental Tough Victory
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
Friendship is a full-time job.
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Friendship Job One Liner Time
You got to have the killer instinct. If you do not have it, forget about basketball and go into social psychology or something. If you sometimes wonder if you’ve got it, you ain’t got it. No pussycats, please.
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Instinct Kill Social Wonder Yourself
Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.
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Attribute Creation Important Selfish Team

Friendship is a full-time job.

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