Bill Russell Quotes
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The most important thing to me is the friends that I've made.
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We learn to make a shell for ourselves when we are young and then spend the rest of our lives hoping for someone to reach inside and touch us. Just touch us—anything more than that would be too much for us to bear.
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If a guy pays you five dollars, you give him seven dollars worth of work.
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Commitment separates those who live their dreams from those who live their lives regretting the opportunities they have squandered.
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We overreached our decision power. Sometimes our decisions have to fit the reality of the outside world.
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We couldn't sustain it. And they got a lot of kids that can shoot. We just couldn't close out well enough.
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You got to have the killer instinct. If you do not have it, forget about basketball and go into social psychology or something. If you sometimes wonder if you've got it, you ain't got it. No pussycats, please.
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Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.
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Don't knock the ball in the stands, keep it in your hands!
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Success is a result of consistent practice of winning skills and actions. There is nothing miraculous about the process. There is no luck involved.
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Learning is a daily experience and a lifetime mission. I truly believe in the saying "We work to become, not to acquire."
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Friendship is a full-time job.
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You can do anything you want to do if you want it bad enough
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If you really have integrity, there are very few people who can insult you, or honor you.
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I think what has happened to our basketball team, we've been badly distracted. They're not reading too many positive things in the paper.
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My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.
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A rebounder, or a shot-blocker for that matter, is always at a disadvantage if he tells himself the only way he can succeed is by out jumping the guy next to him. Sometimes he will have to, but most of the time he will not. Most of my rebounds came from positioning, where I was able to get the ball while in heavy traffic.
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The most important measure of how good a game I played was how much better I’d made my teammates play.
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On females officiating in the NBA -Incompetence should not be confined to one sex.
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People say it was the greatest individual rivalry they've ever seen. I agree with that. Let me assure you that if either Wilt's or Russ' coach had ever told one of them he couldn't guard the other guy, he would have lost that player forever.
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If Shakespeare can compare all of life to a stage, maybe it's not odd to believe that part of the play can take place on a basketball court.
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If you can take something to levels that very few other people can reach, then what you're doing becomes art.
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The magic to a great meeting is all of the work that's done beforehand.
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Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.
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The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.
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Heart in champions has to do with the depth of our motivation and how well your mind and body react to pressure - that is, being able to do what you do best under maximum pain and stress.
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Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.
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I don't have very many regrets, not because I lived a perfect life but because life is a bunch of rolling hills, not mountains, or speed bumps instead of stop signs, and so you come to a situation and it's neither good or bad, it just is, and what it means to you is what's your take on it. But the second part of the equation is what are you going to do about it. A lot of times I'm completely wrong, but all you do is back up and start over.
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I've been fortunate to meet and work with a lot of really smart people. The thing that strikes me most about them is how they continue to explore and learn every day. I have tried to apply that approach in my modest career as well.
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To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, to love someone who loves you is everything.
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