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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.

Skills Success Winning

Learning is a daily experience and a lifetime mission. I truly believe in the saying "We work to become, not to acquire."

Believe Education Learning

The most important measure of how good a game I played was how much better I’d made my teammates play.

Basketball Games Nba

Commitment separates those who live their dreams from those who live their lives regretting the opportunities they have squandered.

Basketball Dream Regret

To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, to love someone who loves you is everything.

Inspirational Love Love Loving Someone

If you really have integrity, there are very few people who can insult you, or honor you.

Insults You Integrity People

The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.

Basketball Block Motivational Sports

Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.

Basketball Focus And Concentration Victory

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

Dollars Giving Guy

You can do anything you want to do if you want it bad enough

Enough Macgyver Want

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.

Basketball Leadership Sports

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.

Mean Regret Starting Over

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.

Joy Stars Winning

Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.

Basketball Nba Team

If you can take something to levels that very few other people can reach, then what you're doing becomes art.

Art Levels People

My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.

Cards Library Oakland

What distinguishes a great player is his presence. When he goes on to the court, his presence dominates the atmosphere.

Basketball Nba Player

Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.

Basketball Fear Letting Go

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.

Basketball Motivation Pain

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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