Bill Russell Quotes

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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,…
• 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…
• Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.
• What distinguishes a great player is his presence. When he goes on to the court, his presence dominates the atmosphere.
• Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.
• What's more important than who's going to be the first black manager is who's going to be the first black sports editor of the New…
• The last five or six days, I've been running. The last two days, I've been running pretty hard. Everybody's got to be someplace.
• Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.
• We couldn't sustain it. And they got a lot of kids that can shoot. We just couldn't close out well enough.
• I think that David Stern is probably the greatest commissioner that any sport has ever had in the history of this country.
• 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'…
• The morale and the camaraderie that we had for one another earlier in the year is starting to come under duress because of all the…
• 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.
• After I played him for the first time, I said 'Let's see. He's four or five inches taller. He's 40 or 50 pounds heavier. His…
• Commitment separates those who live their dreams from those who live their lives regretting the opportunities they have squandered.
• The most important thing to me is the friends that I've made.
• Don't knock the ball in the stands, keep it in your hands!
• To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, to love someone who loves you is everything
• To me, the most important part of winning is joy. You can win without joy, but winning that’s joyless is like eating in a four-star…
• 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…

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