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 RUSSELLRemember that basketball is a game of habits. If you make the other guy deviate from his habits, you’ve got him.
More Bill Russell Quotes
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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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Commitment separates those who live their dreams from those who live their lives regretting the opportunities they have squandered.
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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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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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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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Heart in champions has to do with the depth of our motivation and how well your mind and body react to pressure – that is, being able to do what you do best under maximum pain and stress.
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Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.
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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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If a guy pays you five dollars, you give him seven dollars worth of work.
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To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, to love someone who loves you is everything.
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Friendship is a full-time job.
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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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You can do anything you want to do if you want it bad enough.
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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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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.
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