83 Quotes by Bill Russell

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

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.

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.

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

Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.

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

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

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.