You can practice shooting eight hours a day, but if your technique is wrong, then all you become is very good at shooting the wrong way. Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise.

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Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You can regenerate and make yourself what you will.

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The basketball court for me, during a game, is the most peaceful place I can imagine. On the basketball court, I worry about nothing. When I'm out there, no one can bother me.- Michael Jordan

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Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better. — Pat Riley

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The old lessons (work, self-discipline, sacrifice, teamwork, fighting to achieve) aren't being taught by many people other than football coaches these days. The football coach has a captive audience and can teach these lessons because the communication lines between himself and his players are more wide open than between kids and parents. We better teach these lessons or else the country's future population will be made up of a majority of crooks, drug addicts, or people on relief.

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I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.- Michael Jordan

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Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.

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One man cannot make a team. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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Sometimes you need to get hit in the head to realize that you're in a fight.

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It always amazes me that spectators want to coach, coaches want to officiate, and officials just want to watch the game

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