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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.”

Bill Russell

My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.
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Library Myself Possession Prize
On females officiating in the NBA -Incompetence should not be confined to one sex.
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Female Oneself Sex
The magic to a great meeting is all of the work that’s done beforehand.
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Greatness Hands Magic Work
Don’t knock the ball in the stands, keep it in your hands!
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Hands Stand Yourself
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
If a guy pays you five dollars, you give him seven dollars worth of work.
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Man Pay Work Worth Yourself
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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Game Habit Himself Remember Yourself
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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Art Level People Reach Yourself
You can do anything you want to do if you want it bad enough.
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Bad Enough Yourself
What distinguishes a great player is his presence. When he goes on to the court, his presence dominates the atmosphere.
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Atmosphere Dominate Greatness Player Presence
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
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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Hard Myself Pretty Run
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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Children Close Enough Sustainable
Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.
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Attribute Creation Important Selfish Team
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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Instinct Kill Social Wonder Yourself
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.
BILL RUSSELL

Bear Learning Live Touch Young

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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