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Bill Russell

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.
BILL RUSSELL

Career Fortunate Learning Myself People Smart Work
The only important statistic is the final score.
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Final Importance Score Statistics
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
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
Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.
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Attribute Creation Important Selfish Team
Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.
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Athlete Durability Endurance Greatness Inspirational One Liner
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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Believe Block Ideas Opponent 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
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
We couldn’t sustain it. And they got a lot of kids that can shoot. We just couldn’t close out well enough.
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Children Close Enough Sustainable
Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.
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Finding Hard Time Love People
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
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
My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.
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Library Myself Possession Prize
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’ coach had ever told one of them he couldn’t guard the other guy, he would have lost that player forever.
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Forever Greatness People Player Rivalry

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