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Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.

Bill Russell

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 losses. Some of the guys are feeling the pressure now from the last year when they were not successful.
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Command Early Loss Moral Pressure Success
My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.
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Library Myself Possession Prize
Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.
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Attribute Creation Important Selfish Team
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.
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Hard Myself Pretty Run
Don’t knock the ball in the stands, keep it in your hands!
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Hands Stand Yourself
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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Instinct Kill Social Wonder Yourself
I think that David Stern is probably the greatest commissioner that any sport has ever had in the history of this country.
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Commission Country Greatness Thinking
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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Art Level People Reach Yourself
What distinguishes a great player is his presence. When he goes on to the court, his presence dominates the atmosphere.
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Atmosphere Dominate Greatness Player Presence
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.
BILL RUSSELL

Champion Heart Motivational Pain Stress
Remember that basketball is a game of habits. If you make the other guy deviate from his habits, you’ve got him.
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Game Habit Himself Remember Yourself
If you really have integrity, there are very few people who can insult you, or honor you.
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Insult Integrity People Respect Yourself
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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Action Luck Miracle Practice Result Skill Success
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 York Times.
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Black Important Manager
You can do anything you want to do if you want it bad enough.
BILL RUSSELL

Bad Enough Yourself
Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.
BILL RUSSELL

Focus Mental Tough Victory

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