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"Teachers are sort of faced with a thankless task, because no matter how good they are, unless they find a way to personally rationalize the rewards of their effort, nobody else is really going to do it for them en masse."
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"Effort will always triumph over unapplied potential."

"The merit of all things lies in their difficulty."

"Everything is hard before it is easy."

"It's not going to be easy, but it's kind of like ripping off a band-aid. Painful for a minute, but it has to be done."

"If someone tells you that you can achieve your dreams with little to no work, they are lying to you."

"Plans are easy to make, dreams are easy to dream. But putting your back into it? A little bit of hard graft and discipline? That is just too scary and far too much effort for the masses."

"Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them."
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"And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up a basketball, because I was a scrub - there were things that I liked about it."

"If you've experienced having control, you don't want to be moved to a subordinate position, if you have your druthers."

"I had to spend countless hours, above and beyond the basic time, to try and perfect the fundamentals."

"That was just my own personal program: I didn't want to get too high over the good moments because I didn't want to be saddened and depressed when things didn't go as I had planned."

"I grabbed 19 rebounds in my first professional game, and somehow found a way to score 20 points. I felt real good about it. I felt that this was the beginning of something good."

"If you get depressed about being the second-best team in the world, then you've got a problem."
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