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Chris Bosh: There is no meaningful difference between losing and being beaten
“It's a win column and a loss column. At the end of every game, you either win or you lose. You can take whatever you want to, whatever lessons you want to afterwards. But let's not, let's keep it, let's keep apples to apples, oranges to oranges. Loss and wins.”
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Chris Bosh: Overthinking and post-hoc rationalizations distort intuitive decisions
“What we do is we, that secondary thought, that third thought justifying, well, no, I mean, I should go here because it is closer to home. That's when we start tricking ourselves, but that blink, that minute when we know”
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Chris Bosh: Leaving Toronto for Miami was about winning, not money
“That was the main thing. It was always about basketball. I tell people this all the time... It wasn't, you know, it wasn't about money. That was the thing that messed me up... It wasn't about notoriety. You know, it wasn't about the adoration from fans... I wa…”
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Chris Bosh: Coaches have limited in-game control beyond prompting player responses
“I think you know, that's really what a coach does, because at the end of the day, the players are going to go out there, and it's about the players. It's nothing a coach can do outside of saying the right things to get the right response out of their players. …”
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Chris Bosh: Every championship team experiences a moment they want to quit
“If you watch the finals or watch playoff basketball, any championship, any, in any sport, any, every team goes through a moment where they want to quit every time, you know, that, that is indescribable.”
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Chris Bosh: Hard work gets harder after making millions of dollars
“Cause yeah, now I'm here and I see that from so many young athletes, they make the mistake of just saying I made it and they don't have to work anymore. No, you have to continue to work. As a matter of fact, it gets harder because you're making millions of dol…”
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Chris Bosh: Authentic style emerges from selectively emulating influences
“I think when you emulate so much to where it just becomes a part of you
Then you're doing it without thinking about it.
Then you're able to put your own sauce on it.
You're going to, it's going to happen anyway, because your personality will come out.
You kno…”
Opinion
Chris Bosh: Michael Jordan was the most fundamentally sound player ever
“Kobe Bryant does not get enough credit for how fundamentally sound he was, and the most technical of the technicians was Michael Jordan. He was the most fundamentally sound player I've ever seen.”
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Chris Bosh: Gelling superstar teams requires sacrificing ego and accepting roles
“Figuring out how to gel together as a team, you know, it was difficult, but it always is, you know, there's sacrifices that have to be made. You have to check your ego in one way or another. You have to be a leader to ensure that you guys can be successful.”
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Chris Bosh: Every championship team faces a moment they want to quit
“If you watch the finals or watch playoff basketball or any championship, any, in any sport, any, every team goes to a moment where they want to quit every time, you know, that, that is indescribable.”
Opinion
Chris Bosh: LeBron James plays with more joy than anyone else
“You know, LeBron plays the game with joy. You know, I've never seen so much joy being experienced by an individual.”
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Chris Bosh: Winning three consecutive NBA championships is damn near impossible
“I've had my, you know experience trying to three-peat. It's damn near impossible, man. You know, we got the four finals in a row, and we had the shot, but boy, the Spurs were pretty darn good that year, and they were a motivated bunch of guys, and they played …”
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Chris Bosh details his final dinner with Kobe Bryant
“I didn't know when I had dinner with Kobe in September that that would be it. But you know what I do know? We talked about film. We talked about dreams. We talked about writing. We talked about bettering ourselves and getting to that next level in our lifetime…”
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Chris Bosh: Basketball is the ultimate equalizer regardless of wealth
“Basketball was always the ultimate equalizer. It didn't matter, you know, your parents' status or your status or if you had a car or not.”
Disclosure
Chris Bosh: Detaching from social media helped focus the Miami Heat
“Once we got to Miami, that's kind of when the supernova sonic boom happened, and then the video and the ability to have the bandwidth to share all these things, that's when those things happened. I was disinterested by then. I wasn't all the way in. I was more…”
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Chris Bosh: True leadership is treating others well despite a bad day
“I want to treat you nice on a day that I'm feeling bad. That's like, to me, that's leading by example in the truest form because it's not about me. You know, it's not about how I feel particularly at that time. It's about our team.”
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Chris Bosh: Expecting success without preparation is ego, not confidence
“That's what, in the book, I try to like, that's ego. It's like, ah, yeah, I'm gonna pass without studying. Yeah, that's the ego talking. Confidence is like, no, to me, confidence comes from work, you know, putting the work in,”
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