Learning is a daily experience and a lifetime mission. I truly believe in the saying “We work to become, not to acquire.”
BILL RUSSELLMy 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.
More Bill Russell Quotes
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If a guy pays you five dollars, you give him seven dollars worth of work.
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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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The only important statistic is the final score.
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The most important thing to me is the friends that I’ve made.
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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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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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Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.
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Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.
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Friendship is a full-time job.
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The last five or six days, I’ve been running. The last two days, I’ve been running pretty hard. Everybody’s got to be someplace.
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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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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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Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.
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You can do anything you want to do if you want it bad enough.
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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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