If you really have integrity, there are very few people who can insult you, or honor you.
BILL RUSSELLThe 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.
More Bill Russell Quotes
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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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The magic to a great meeting is all of the work that’s done beforehand.
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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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We overreached our decision power. Sometimes our decisions have to fit the reality of the outside world.
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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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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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To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, to love someone who loves you is everything.
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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.
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If a guy pays you five dollars, you give him seven dollars worth of work.
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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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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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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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The only important statistic is the final score.
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Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.
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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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