List of Bill Russell Quotes

I Think That David Stern Is Probably The Greatest Commissioner That Any Sport Has Ever Had In The History Of This Country.

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.

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 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.

We Couldn't Sustain It. And They Got A Lot Of Kids That Can Shoot. We Just Couldn't Close Out Well Enough.

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.

Durability Is Part Of What Makes A Great Athlete.

Don't Knock The Ball In The Stands, Keep It In Your Hands!

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.

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.

A Rebounder, Or A Shot-blocker For That Matter, Is Always At A Disadvantage If He Tells Himself The Only Way He Can Succeed Is By Out Jumping The Guy Next To Him. Sometimes He Will Have To, But Most Of The Time He Will Not. Most Of My Rebounds Came From Positioning, Where I Was Able To Get The Ball While In Heavy Traffic.

On Females Officiating In The Nba -incompetence Should Not Be Confined To One Sex.