The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

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I would tell players to relax and never think about what's at stake. Just think about the basketball game. If you start to think about who is going to win the championship, you've lost your focus. - Michael Jordan

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If nobody will help you do it alone!

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There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.

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Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer. -Ted Williams

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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. - George Orwell

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God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure. - Eric Liddell

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

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I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. - Michael Jordan

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Obstacles cannot bend me. Every obstacle yields to effort.

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