Bill Russell Quotes

We overreached our decision power. Sometimes our decisions have to fit the reality of the outside world.

We couldn't sustain it. And they got a lot of kids that can shoot. We just couldn't close out well enough.

Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.

The most important thing to me is the friends that I've made.

If you really have integrity, there are very few people who can insult you, or honor you.

Commitment separates those who live their dreams from those who live their lives regretting the opportunities they have squandered.

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

Don't knock the ball in the stands, keep it in your hands!

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

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.

Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.

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.

If a guy pays you five dollars, you give him seven dollars worth of work.

The magic to a great meeting is all of the work that's done beforehand.

This monument is going to be built as a symbol.

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

The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.

Remember that basketball is a game of habits. If you make the other guy deviate from his habits, you've got him

Friendship is a full-time job.

What distinguishes a great player is his presence. When he goes on to the court, his presence dominates the atmosphere.

On females officiating in the NBA -Incompetence should not be confined to one sex.

The only important statistic is the final score.

Learning is a daily experience and a lifetime mission. I truly believe in the saying "We work to become, not to acquire."

My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.

Success is a result of consistent practice of winning skills and actions. There is nothing miraculous about the process. There is no luck involved.

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.

The most important measure of how good a game I played was how much better I'd made my teammates play.

Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.

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.

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.

Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.