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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.

Bill Russell

The most important thing to me is the friends that I’ve made.
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Friendship Important Myself
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
Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.
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Attribute Creation Important Selfish Team
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
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
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
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 can do anything you want to do if you want it bad enough.
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Bad Enough Yourself
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
If a guy pays you five dollars, you give him seven dollars worth of work.
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Man Pay Work Worth Yourself
The magic to a great meeting is all of the work that’s done beforehand.
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Greatness Hands Magic Work
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
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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Game Habit Himself Remember Yourself
On females officiating in the NBA -Incompetence should not be confined to one sex.
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Female Oneself Sex

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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