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

Bill Russell

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
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
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
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
Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.
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Attribute Creation Important Selfish Team
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
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
Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.
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Athlete Durability Endurance Greatness Inspirational One Liner
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 thing to me is the friends that I’ve made.
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Friendship Important Myself
I think that David Stern is probably the greatest commissioner that any sport has ever had in the history of this country.
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Commission Country Greatness Thinking
On females officiating in the NBA -Incompetence should not be confined to one sex.
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Female Oneself Sex
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
Friendship is a full-time job.
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Friendship Job One Liner Time
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

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

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