Friendship is a full-time job.
BILL RUSSELLTo love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, to love someone who loves you is everything.
More Bill Russell Quotes
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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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Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.
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If you can take something to levels that very few other people can reach, then what you’re doing becomes art.
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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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If a guy pays you five dollars, you give him seven dollars worth of work.
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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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The only important statistic is the final score.
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On females officiating in the NBA -Incompetence should not be confined to one sex.
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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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You can do anything you want to do if you want it bad enough.
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Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.
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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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Commitment separates those who live their dreams from those who live their lives regretting the opportunities they have squandered.
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Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.
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Learning is a daily experience and a lifetime mission. I truly believe in the saying “We work to become, not to acquire.”
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