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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.

Bill Russell

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.
BILL RUSSELL

Black Important Manager
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
My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.
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Library Myself Possession Prize
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
Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.
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Focus Mental Tough Victory
You can do anything you want to do if you want it bad enough.
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Bad Enough 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
The most important thing to me is the friends that I’ve made.
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Friendship Important Myself
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 restaurant when you’re not hungry. Joy is a current of energy in your body, like chlorophyll or sunlight, that fills you up and makes you naturally want to do your best.
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Happiness Hungry Light Natural Restaurant Sun Win Yourself
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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Paper Positive Team Thinking
If a guy pays you five dollars, you give him seven dollars worth of work.
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Man Pay Work Worth Yourself
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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Important Measurement Myself Play Team
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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Experience Learning Mission Time Work
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
On females officiating in the NBA -Incompetence should not be confined to one sex.
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Female Oneself Sex
To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, to love someone who loves you is everything.
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Feeling True

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