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Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.

Bill Russell

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
You can do anything you want to do if you want it bad enough.
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Bad Enough Yourself
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
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
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
Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.
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Focus Mental Tough Victory
Commitment separates those who live their dreams from those who live their lives regretting the opportunities they have squandered.
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Commitment Live Opportunity Regret Separate
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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