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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…
• You got to have the killer instinct. If you do not have it, forget about basketball and go into social psychology or…
• Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.
• What distinguishes a great player is his presence. When he goes on to the court, his presence dominates the atmosphere.
• Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.
• 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…
• 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…
• Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.
• We couldn't sustain it. And they got a lot of kids that can shoot. We just couldn't close out well enough.
• I think that David Stern is probably the greatest commissioner that any sport has ever had in the history of this country.
• People say it was the greatest individual rivalry they've ever seen. I agree with that. Let me assure you that if either…
• The morale and the camaraderie that we had for one another earlier in the year is starting to come under duress because…

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