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Remember that basketball is a game of habits. If you make the other guy deviate from his habits, you’ve got him.

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
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
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
Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.
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Focus Mental Tough Victory
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
The magic to a great meeting is all of the work that’s done beforehand.
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Greatness Hands Magic Work
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
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 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
The most important thing to me is the friends that I’ve made.
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Friendship Important Myself
You can do anything you want to do if you want it bad enough.
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Bad Enough Yourself
The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.
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Believe Block Ideas Opponent Yourself
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
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

Remember that basketball is a game of habits. If you make the other guy deviate from his habits, you’ve got him.

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