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If a guy pays you five dollars, you give him seven dollars worth of work.

Bill Russell

I think what has happened to our basketball team, we’ve been badly distracted. They’re not reading too many positive things in the paper.
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Paper Positive Team Thinking
Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.
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Athlete Durability Endurance Greatness Inspirational One Liner
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
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
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
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
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
Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.
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Finding Hard Time Love People
The only important statistic is the final score.
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Final Importance Score Statistics
The most important thing to me is the friends that I’ve made.
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Friendship Important Myself
The magic to a great meeting is all of the work that’s done beforehand.
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Greatness Hands Magic Work
Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.
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Focus Mental Tough Victory
If a guy pays you five dollars, you give him seven dollars worth of work.
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Man Pay Work Worth Yourself
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
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
You got to have the killer instinct. If you do not have it, forget about basketball and go into social psychology or something. If you sometimes wonder if you’ve got it, you ain’t got it. No pussycats, please.
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Instinct Kill Social Wonder Yourself

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