How To Win

I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Excellence is doing the right things.

Wisdom is doing them them at the right time.

Practice is how both happen.

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The little things are what makes up practice.

And the little things are what make big things.

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