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The most important thing to me is the friends that I’ve made.

Bill Russell

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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Command Early Loss Moral Pressure Success
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
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
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
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
The magic to a great meeting is all of the work that’s done beforehand.
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Greatness Hands Magic Work
If a guy pays you five dollars, you give him seven dollars worth of work.
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Man Pay Work Worth 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
We learn to make a shell for ourselves when we are young and then spend the rest of our lives hoping for someone to reach inside and touch us. Just touch us-anything more than that would be too much for us to bear.
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Bear Learning Live Touch Young
My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.
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Library Myself Possession Prize
The most important thing to me is the friends that I’ve made.
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Friendship Important Myself
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
You can do anything you want to do if you want it bad enough.
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Bad Enough 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
Friendship is a full-time job.
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Friendship Job One Liner Time

The most important thing to me is the friends that I’ve made.

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