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

Bill Russell

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
Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.
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Attribute Creation Important Selfish Team
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
The magic to a great meeting is all of the work that’s done beforehand.
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Greatness Hands Magic Work
The most important thing to me is the friends that I’ve made.
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Friendship Important Myself
My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.
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Library Myself Possession Prize
Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.
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Finding Hard Time Love People
If you can take something to levels that very few other people can reach, then what you’re doing becomes art.
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Art Level People Reach Yourself
The only important statistic is the final score.
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Final Importance Score Statistics
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
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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Compare Life Play Stage
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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Career Fortunate Learning Myself People Smart Work
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
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
Friendship is a full-time job.
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Friendship Job One Liner Time
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

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

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