Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.
BILL RUSSELLOn females officiating in the NBA -Incompetence should not be confined to one sex.
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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Don’t knock the ball in the stands, keep it in your hands!
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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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If a guy pays you five dollars, you give him seven dollars worth of work.
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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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Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.
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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 that David Stern is probably the greatest commissioner that any sport has ever had in the history of this country.
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You can do anything you want to do if you want it bad enough.
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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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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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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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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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Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.
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