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I think that David Stern is probably the greatest commissioner that any sport has ever had in the history of this country.

Bill Russell

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
If Shakespeare can compare all of life to a stage, maybe it’s not odd to believe that part of the play can take place on a basketball court.
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Compare Life Play Stage
Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.
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Attribute Creation Important Selfish Team
You can do anything you want to do if you want it bad enough.
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Bad Enough Yourself
To me, the most important part of winning is joy. You can win without joy, but winning that’s joyless is like eating in a four-star restaurant when you’re not hungry. Joy is a current of energy in your body, like chlorophyll or sunlight, that fills you up and makes you naturally want to do your best.
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Happiness Hungry Light Natural Restaurant Sun Win 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.
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Bear Learning Live Touch Young
To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, to love someone who loves you is everything.
BILL RUSSELL

Feeling True
Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.
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Focus Mental Tough Victory
Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.
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Athlete Durability Endurance Greatness Inspirational One Liner
On females officiating in the NBA -Incompetence should not be confined to one sex.
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Female Oneself Sex
If a guy pays you five dollars, you give him seven dollars worth of work.
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Man Pay Work Worth Yourself
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
Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.
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Finding Hard Time Love People
My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.
BILL RUSSELL

Library Myself Possession Prize
Don’t knock the ball in the stands, keep it in your hands!
BILL RUSSELL

Hands Stand Yourself
Learning is a daily experience and a lifetime mission. I truly believe in the saying “We work to become, not to acquire.”
BILL RUSSELL

Experience Learning Mission Time Work

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