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Don’t knock the ball in the stands, keep it in your hands!

Bill Russell

The most important thing to me is the friends that I’ve made.
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Friendship Important Myself
The only important statistic is the final score.
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Final Importance Score Statistics
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
Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.
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Finding Hard Time Love People
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
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.
BILL RUSSELL

Instinct Kill Social Wonder 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
My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.
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Library Myself Possession Prize
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
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
Friendship is a full-time job.
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Friendship Job One Liner Time
Commitment separates those who live their dreams from those who live their lives regretting the opportunities they have squandered.
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Commitment Live Opportunity Regret Separate
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
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
We learn to make a shell for ourselves when we are young and then spend the rest of our lives hoping for someone to reach inside and touch us. Just touch us-anything more than that would be too much for us to bear.
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Bear Learning Live Touch Young

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