Don’t knock the ball in the stands, keep it in your hands!
BILL RUSSELLThe magic to a great meeting is all of the work that’s done beforehand.
More Bill Russell Quotes
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On females officiating in the NBA -Incompetence should not be confined to one sex.
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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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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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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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My 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.
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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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If a guy pays you five dollars, you give him seven dollars worth of work.
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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.
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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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Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.
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Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.
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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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You can do anything you want to do if you want it bad enough.
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We overreached our decision power. Sometimes our decisions have to fit the reality of the outside world.
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