My father once told me that anyone who worked for three dollars an hour owed it to himself to put in four dollars’ worth of work.
BILL RUSSELLIf a guy pays you five dollars, you give him seven dollars worth of work.
More Bill Russell Quotes
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If you really have integrity, there are very few people who can insult you, or honor you.
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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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Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.
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The magic to a great meeting is all of the work that’s done beforehand.
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The only important statistic is the final score.
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Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.
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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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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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My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.
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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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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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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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Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.
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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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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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