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.
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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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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If you really have integrity, there are very few people who can insult you, or honor you.
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To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, to love someone who loves you is everything.
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The only important statistic is the final score.
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Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.
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We overreached our decision power. Sometimes our decisions have to fit the reality of the outside world.
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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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Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.
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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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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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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 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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Heart in champions has to do with the depth of our motivation and how well your mind and body react to pressure – that is, being able to do what you do best under maximum pain and stress.
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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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If a guy pays you five dollars, you give him seven dollars worth of work.
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