"To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, to love someone who loves you is everything."
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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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"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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"Commitment separates those who live their dreams from those who live their lives regretting the opportunities they have squandered."
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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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"If you really have integrity, there are very few people who can insult you, or honor you."
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"If a guy pays you five dollars, you give him seven dollars worth of work."
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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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"You can do anything you want to do if you want it bad enough"
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"Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory."
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"Durability is part of what makes a great athlete."
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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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"My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library."
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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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"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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"Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them."
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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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"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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"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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"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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