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

Bill Russell

Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.
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Focus Mental Tough Victory
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
What distinguishes a great player is his presence. When he goes on to the court, his presence dominates the atmosphere.
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Atmosphere Dominate Greatness Player Presence
Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.
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Athlete Durability Endurance Greatness Inspirational One Liner
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 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
If a guy pays you five dollars, you give him seven dollars worth of work.
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Man Pay Work Worth Yourself
The most important thing to me is the friends that I’ve made.
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Friendship Important Myself
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
Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.
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Attribute Creation Important Selfish Team
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
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
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
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
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

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

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