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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

We overreached our decision power. Sometimes our decisions have to fit the reality of the outside world.
BILL RUSSELL

Decision Power Reality World
The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.
BILL RUSSELL

Believe Block Ideas Opponent Yourself
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.
BILL RUSSELL

Hard Myself Pretty Run
The magic to a great meeting is all of the work that’s done beforehand.
BILL RUSSELL

Greatness Hands Magic Work
Friendship is a full-time job.
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Friendship Job One Liner Time
The only important statistic is the final score.
BILL RUSSELL

Final Importance Score Statistics
If you really have integrity, there are very few people who can insult you, or honor you.
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Insult Integrity People Respect Yourself
You can do anything you want to do if you want it bad enough.
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Bad Enough Yourself
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
To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, to love someone who loves you is everything.
BILL RUSSELL

Feeling True
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.
BILL RUSSELL

Paper Positive Team Thinking
What distinguishes a great player is his presence. When he goes on to the court, his presence dominates the atmosphere.
BILL RUSSELL

Atmosphere Dominate Greatness Player Presence
I think that David Stern is probably the greatest commissioner that any sport has ever had in the history of this country.
BILL RUSSELL

Commission Country Greatness Thinking
People say it was the greatest individual rivalry they’ve ever seen. I agree with that. Let me assure you that if either Wilt’s or Russ’ coach had ever told one of them he couldn’t guard the other guy, he would have lost that player forever.
BILL RUSSELL

Forever Greatness People Player Rivalry
Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.
BILL RUSSELL

Focus Mental Tough Victory
Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.
BILL RUSSELL

Attribute Creation Important Selfish Team

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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