You can do anything you want to do if you want it bad enough.
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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Friendship is a full-time job.
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If a guy pays you five dollars, you give him seven dollars worth of work.
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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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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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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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Commitment separates those who live their dreams from those who live their lives regretting the opportunities they have squandered.
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Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.
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The most important thing to me is the friends that I’ve made.
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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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If you really have integrity, there are very few people who can insult you, or honor you.
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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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To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, to love someone who loves you is everything.
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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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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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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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