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Basketball Quotes by Bill Russell
- 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!
- 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…
- On females officiating in the NBA -Incompetence should not be confined to one sex.
- Remember that basketball is a game of habits. If you make the other guy deviate from his habits, you've got him
- I hope I epitomize the American dream. For I came against long odds, from the ghetto to the very top of my profession. I was…
- Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.
- 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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