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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.

Bill Russell

Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.
BILL RUSSELL

Athlete Durability Endurance Greatness Inspirational One Liner
Don’t knock the ball in the stands, keep it in your hands!
BILL RUSSELL

Hands Stand Yourself
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
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
On females officiating in the NBA -Incompetence should not be confined to one sex.
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Female Oneself Sex
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
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
Friendship is a full-time job.
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Friendship Job One Liner Time
Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.
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Focus Mental Tough Victory
Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.
BILL RUSSELL

Attribute Creation Important Selfish Team
To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, to love someone who loves you is everything.
BILL RUSSELL

Feeling True
Commitment separates those who live their dreams from those who live their lives regretting the opportunities they have squandered.
BILL RUSSELL

Commitment Live Opportunity Regret Separate
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.
BILL RUSSELL

Compare Life Play Stage
Learning is a daily experience and a lifetime mission. I truly believe in the saying “We work to become, not to acquire.”
BILL RUSSELL

Experience Learning Mission Time Work
Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.
BILL RUSSELL

Finding Hard Time Love People
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.
BILL RUSSELL

Command Early Loss Moral Pressure Success

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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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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