Don’t knock the ball in the stands, keep it in your hands!
BILL RUSSELLDurability is part of what makes a great athlete.
More Bill Russell Quotes
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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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Friendship is a full-time job.
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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 you really have integrity, there are very few people who can insult you, or honor you.
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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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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 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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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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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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On females officiating in the NBA -Incompetence should not be confined to one sex.
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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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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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What distinguishes a great player is his presence. When he goes on to the court, his presence dominates the atmosphere.
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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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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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