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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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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What distinguishes a great player is his presence. When he goes on to the court, his presence dominates the atmosphere.
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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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The only important statistic is the final score.
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Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.
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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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Don’t knock the ball in the stands, keep it in your hands!
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The magic to a great meeting is all of the work that’s done beforehand.
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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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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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We overreached our decision power. Sometimes our decisions have to fit the reality of the outside world.
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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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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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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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The morale and the camaraderie that we had for one another earlier in the year is starting to come under duress because of all the losses. Some of the guys are feeling the pressure now from the last year when they were not successful.
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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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