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To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, to love someone who loves you is everything.
Bill Russell / Basketball Player
Love
Inspirational Love
Love You
Loving Someone
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Friendship is a full-time job.
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Jobs
Full Time Jobs
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This monument is going to be built as a symbol.
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Monument
Symbol
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The only important statistic is the final score.
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Basketball
Important
Nba
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Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.
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Athlete
Basketball
Reality
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Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.
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Basketball
Nba
Team
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Don't knock the ball in the stands, keep it in your hands!
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Balls
Basketball
Hands
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You can do anything you want to do if you want it bad enough
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Enough
Macgyver
Want
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The most important thing to me is the friends that I've made.
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Basketball
Important
Nba
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Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.
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Basketball
Concentration
Focus And Concentration
Margins
Mental Toughness
Toughness
Victory
Mental
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The magic to a great meeting is all of the work that's done beforehand.
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Done
Magic
Meetings
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If a guy pays you five dollars, you give him seven dollars worth of work.
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Dollars
Giving
Guy
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My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.
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Cards
Library
Oakland
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On females officiating in the NBA -Incompetence should not be confined to one sex.
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Funny
Basketball
Sex
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Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.
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Unrequited Love
Fear
Basketball
Harder
Letting Go
Love Time People
Finding
Harder Time
Letting
Themselves
To Love
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If you really have integrity, there are very few people who can insult you, or honor you.
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Insults You
Integrity
People
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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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Basketball
Games
Nba
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We overreached our decision power. Sometimes our decisions have to fit the reality of the outside world.
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Decision
Reality
World
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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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Kids
Basketball
Enough
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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
Levels
People
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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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Basketball
Block
Might
Motivational Sports
Shot
Idea
Opponent
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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
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Basketball
Games
Nba
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What distinguishes a great player is his presence. When he goes on to the court, his presence dominates the atmosphere.
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Basketball
Nba
Player
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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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Education
Learning
Believe
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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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Sports
Basketball
Country
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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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Running
Basketball
Two
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My father once told me that anyone who worked for three dollars an hour owed it to himself to put in four dollars' worth of work.
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Dollars
Excellence
Father
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Commitment separates those who live their dreams from those who live their lives regretting the opportunities they have squandered.
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Dream
Basketball
Regret
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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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Basketball
Reading
Team
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If Shakespeare can compare all of life to a stage, maybe it's not odd to believe that part of the play can take place on a basketball court.
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Inspirational
Basketball
Believe
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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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New York
Sports
Basketball
New York Times
Be The First
Editor
Manager
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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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Success
Skills
Winning
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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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Basketball
Motivation
Pain
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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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Basketball
Killers
Psychology
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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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Inspirational
Basketball
Would Be
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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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Careers
People
Smart
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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.
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Basketball
Loss
Successful
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People say it was the greatest individual rivalry they've ever seen. I agree with that. Let me assure you that if either Wilt's or Russ' coach had ever told one of them he couldn't guard the other guy, he would have lost that player forever.
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Basketball
People
Player
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After I played him for the first time, I said 'Let's see. He's four or five inches taller. He's 40 or 50 pounds heavier. His vertical leap is at least as good as mine. He can get up and down the floor as well as I can. And he's smart. The real problem with all this is I have to show up.
Bill Russell / Basketball Player
Basketball
Real
Smart
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To me, the most important part of winning is joy. You can win without joy, but winning that’s joyless is like eating in a four-star restaurant when you’re not hungry. Joy is a current of energy in your body, like chlorophyll or sunlight, that fills you up and makes you naturally want to do your best.
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Joy
Stars
Winning
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I hope I epitomize the American dream. For I came against long odds, from the ghetto to the very top of my profession. I was not immediately good at basketball. It did not come easy. It came as the result of a lot of hard work and self-sacrifice. The rewards, where they worth it? One thousand times over.
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Leadership
Sports
Basketball
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A rebounder, or a shot-blocker for that matter, is always at a disadvantage if he tells himself the only way he can succeed is by out jumping the guy next to him. Sometimes he will have to, but most of the time he will not. Most of my rebounds came from positioning, where I was able to get the ball while in heavy traffic.
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Balls
Guy
Jumping
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I don't have very many regrets, not because I lived a perfect life but because life is a bunch of rolling hills, not mountains, or speed bumps instead of stop signs, and so you come to a situation and it's neither good or bad, it just is, and what it means to you is what's your take on it. But the second part of the equation is what are you going to do about it. A lot of times I'm completely wrong, but all you do is back up and start over.
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Mean
Regret
Starting Over
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