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If you can take something to levels that very few other people can reach, then what you’re doing becomes art.

Bill Russell

My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.
BILL RUSSELL

Library Myself Possession Prize
If you can take something to levels that very few other people can reach, then what you’re doing becomes art.
BILL RUSSELL

Art Level People Reach 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 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
Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.
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Athlete Durability Endurance Greatness Inspirational One Liner
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
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
We overreached our decision power. Sometimes our decisions have to fit the reality of the outside world.
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Decision Power Reality World
To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, to love someone who loves you is everything.
BILL RUSSELL

Feeling True
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
Don’t knock the ball in the stands, keep it in your hands!
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Hands Stand Yourself
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
The only important statistic is the final score.
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Final Importance Score Statistics
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
Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.
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Attribute Creation Important Selfish Team

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