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

Bill Russell

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
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
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 magic to a great meeting is all of the work that’s done beforehand.
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Greatness Hands Magic Work
Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.
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Focus Mental Tough Victory
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
The only important statistic is the final score.
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Final Importance Score Statistics
On females officiating in the NBA -Incompetence should not be confined to one sex.
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Female Oneself Sex
Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.
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Athlete Durability Endurance Greatness Inspirational One Liner
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
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
Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.
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Finding Hard Time Love People
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
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
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
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

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

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