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

Bill Russell

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 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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Compare Life Play Stage
Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.
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Finding Hard Time Love People
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
People say it was the greatest individual rivalry they’ve ever seen. I agree with that. Let me assure you that if either Wilt’s or Russ’ coach had ever told one of them he couldn’t guard the other guy, he would have lost that player forever.
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Forever Greatness People Player Rivalry
Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.
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Focus Mental Tough Victory
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
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
On females officiating in the NBA -Incompetence should not be confined to one sex.
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Female Oneself Sex
Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.
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Attribute Creation Important Selfish Team
You can do anything you want to do if you want it bad enough.
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Bad Enough 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
I’ve been fortunate to meet and work with a lot of really smart people. The thing that strikes me most about them is how they continue to explore and learn every day. I have tried to apply that approach in my modest career as well.
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Career Fortunate Learning Myself People Smart Work
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
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

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

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