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

Bill Russell

If you really have integrity, there are very few people who can insult you, or honor you.
BILL RUSSELL

Insult Integrity People Respect Yourself
My father once told me that anyone who worked for three dollars an hour owed it to himself to put in four dollars’ worth of work.
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Father Myself Work Worth
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
The most important thing to me is the friends that I’ve made.
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Friendship Important Myself
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
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
You can do anything you want to do if you want it bad enough.
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Bad Enough Yourself
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.
BILL RUSSELL

Commitment Live Opportunity Regret Separate
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.
BILL RUSSELL

Compare Life Play Stage
Learning is a daily experience and a lifetime mission. I truly believe in the saying “We work to become, not to acquire.”
BILL RUSSELL

Experience Learning Mission Time Work
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
Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.
BILL RUSSELL

Focus Mental Tough Victory
Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.
BILL RUSSELL

Attribute Creation Important Selfish Team
We couldn’t sustain it. And they got a lot of kids that can shoot. We just couldn’t close out well enough.
BILL RUSSELL

Children Close Enough Sustainable
What distinguishes a great player is his presence. When he goes on to the court, his presence dominates the atmosphere.
BILL RUSSELL

Atmosphere Dominate Greatness Player Presence

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