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The magic to a great meeting is all of the work that’s done beforehand.

Bill Russell

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
Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.
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Athlete Durability Endurance Greatness Inspirational One Liner
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
What distinguishes a great player is his presence. When he goes on to the court, his presence dominates the atmosphere.
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Atmosphere Dominate Greatness Player Presence
The most important thing to me is the friends that I’ve made.
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Friendship Important Myself
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
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
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
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
Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.
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Finding Hard Time Love People
Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.
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Focus Mental Tough Victory
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
You can do anything you want to do if you want it bad enough.
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Bad Enough Yourself
Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.
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Attribute Creation Important Selfish Team
If a guy pays you five dollars, you give him seven dollars worth of work.
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Man Pay Work Worth Yourself
Learning is a daily experience and a lifetime mission. I truly believe in the saying “We work to become, not to acquire.”
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Experience Learning Mission Time Work

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