Top 37 Bill Russell Basketball Quotes
#1. As a kid, I spent every summer bent over a stack of books, obsessively writing detailed reports on each one.
Diablo Cody
#2. 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.
Bill Russell
#3. He's very nice. He's something I replied. She considered this zipping her purse shut. Then she said Well everyone is. Everyone is Something. For some reason that stuck with me simple and yet not every since she'd said it. It was like a puzzle as well two vague words with one clear one between them.
Sarah Dessen
#4. 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.
Bill Russell
#5. I think that David Stern is probably the greatest commissioner that any sport has ever had in the history of this country.
Bill Russell
#6. We can only be faithful to what we remember, and we remember only what we have known.
Marcel Proust
#7. Bill Russell helped make my dream a better dream because when you play with the best, you know you have to play your best.
Wilt Chamberlain
#8. Don't knock the ball in the stands, keep it in your hands!
Bill Russell
#9. 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.
Bill Russell
#10. After I played him for the first time, I said 'Let's see. He's four or five inches taller. He's 40 or 50 pounds heavier. His vertical leap is at least as good as mine. He can get up and down the floor as well as I can. And he's smart. The real problem with all this is I have to show up.
Bill Russell
#11. 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.
Bill Russell
#12. On females officiating in the NBA -Incompetence should not be confined to one sex.
Bill Russell
#13. 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.
Bill Russell
#14. Who could better motivate Bill Russell than Bill Russell?
Red Auerbach
#15. And there was Tara, again with that shy half-smile and her burgundy lips slightly puckered, that shy kink, an incomplete curlicue at the corner of her mouth; he'd seen it before many times but never noted it, and now it had him mesmerized.
Graham Joyce
#16. What distinguishes a great player is his presence. When he goes on to the court, his presence dominates the atmosphere.
Bill Russell
#17. Wilt Chamberlain had a great deal to do with the success of the NBA. His dominance, power, demeanor and the rivalry with Bill Russell says it all. He will be sorely missed by myself and everyone in the basketball community. Wilt was a great performer and a great athlete.
Red Auerbach
#18. Remember that basketball is a game of habits. If you make the other guy deviate from his habits, you've got him
Bill Russell
#19. The only important statistic is the final score.
Bill Russell
#20. We couldn't sustain it. And they got a lot of kids that can shoot. We just couldn't close out well enough.
Bill Russell
#21. I don't live in Hollywood. I don't have celebrities as friends. I like them, but I don't pal around with them. I just live in the Midwest, a real normal world.
Jerry Springer
#22. Sugar and caffeine. My willpower crumbled.
Rick Riordan
#23. After the brain tumor happened, I realized I love acting, I've always loved it, I may never get a chance to do it again.
Mark Ruffalo
#24. Commitment separates those who live their dreams from those who live their lives regretting the opportunities they have squandered.
Bill Russell
#25. Bill Russell is one of the great names in basketball, an all-American ... and the only athlete to ever win an NCAA Championship, an Olympic Gold Medal, and a professional championship all in the same year-1956 ... But Bill Russell had this one problem: He threw up before every game.
John Eliot
#26. 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.
Bill Russell
#27. 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.
Bill Russell
#28. The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking ... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. (1945)
Albert Einstein
#29. 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
#30. Light reading (by this, I mean books of little importance) may amuse for the moment, but leaves nothing solid behind.
Ron Chernow
#31. When the Lord's angelic brakeman brings my life to a standstill, "and this train ends" I will board the next train and "I'll try again" (lyrics from Tuesday's Gone by Lynyrd Skynyrd).
Jonah Books
#32. Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.
Bill Russell
#33. He looks down at them and arranges his face. Erasmus says that you must do this each morning before you leave your house: put on a mask, as it were.
Hilary Mantel
#34. I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way they played, the teamwork, the sacrifice, the commitment, the joy, the camaraderie, the relationship with the fans.
Bill Walton
#35. The most important thing to me is the friends that I've made.
Bill Russell
#36. I would have loved to play against Bill Russell. He was such a force.
Tim Duncan
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