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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.

Bill Russell

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

Library Myself Possession Prize
I think that David Stern is probably the greatest commissioner that any sport has ever had in the history of this country.
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Commission Country Greatness Thinking
Friendship is a full-time job.
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Friendship Job One Liner Time
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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Black Important Manager
If you can take something to levels that very few other people can reach, then what you’re doing becomes art.
BILL RUSSELL

Art Level People Reach Yourself
Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.
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Attribute Creation Important Selfish Team
If you really have integrity, there are very few people who can insult you, or honor you.
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Insult Integrity People Respect Yourself
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
Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.
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Focus Mental Tough Victory
The most important thing to me is the friends that I’ve made.
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Friendship Important Myself
Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.
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Athlete Durability Endurance Greatness Inspirational One Liner
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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Happiness Hungry Light Natural Restaurant Sun Win Yourself
The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.
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Believe Block Ideas Opponent Yourself
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
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
Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.
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Finding Hard Time Love People

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