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To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, to love someone who loves you is everything.

Bill Russell

If you can take something to levels that very few other people can reach, then what you’re doing becomes art.
BILL RUSSELL

Art Level People Reach 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.
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Command Early Loss Moral Pressure Success
Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.
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Attribute Creation Important Selfish Team
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
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
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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Commission Country Greatness Thinking
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
Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.
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Finding Hard Time Love People
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
The most important thing to me is the friends that I’ve made.
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Friendship Important Myself
You can do anything you want to do if you want it bad enough.
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Bad Enough Yourself
Don’t knock the ball in the stands, keep it in your hands!
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Hands Stand Yourself
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.
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Commitment Live Opportunity Regret Separate
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
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.
BILL RUSSELL

Instinct Kill Social Wonder Yourself

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