Basketball, like all sports, is predicated on the execution of fundamentals. The coach is a teacher. His subject: fundamentals.

Dr Jack Ramsay

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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.

The game has its ups and downs, but you can never lose focus of your individual goals and you can't let yourself be beat because of lack of effort.

The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.

William Arthur Ward

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

Multitasking is the sign of a stressed and diseased mind simultaneously doing many things poorly. Quality work and quality thinking require quiet focus.

Reaction is the enemy of creation. Creation requires deep sustained focus. This focus is under constant attack by "notifications" that encourage you to respond to unending false emergencies. Protect your attention and direct it to where it is most valuable.

The Stoic Emperor

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