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The most important thing to me is the friends that I’ve made.

Bill Russell

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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Career Fortunate Learning Myself People Smart Work
Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.
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Attribute Creation Important Selfish Team
What distinguishes a great player is his presence. When he goes on to the court, his presence dominates the atmosphere.
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Atmosphere Dominate Greatness Player Presence
My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.
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Library Myself Possession Prize
On females officiating in the NBA -Incompetence should not be confined to one sex.
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Female Oneself Sex
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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Paper Positive Team Thinking
Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.
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Focus Mental Tough Victory
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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Game Habit Himself Remember Yourself
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
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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Important Measurement Myself Play Team
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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Action Luck Miracle Practice Result Skill Success
Don’t knock the ball in the stands, keep it in your hands!
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Hands Stand Yourself
We overreached our decision power. Sometimes our decisions have to fit the reality of the outside world.
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Decision Power Reality World
To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, to love someone who loves you is everything.
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Feeling True
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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Compare Life Play Stage

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