Bill Russell
Bill Russell
William Felton "Bill" Russellis an American retired professional basketball player. Russell played center for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Associationfrom 1956 to 1969. A five-time NBA Most Valuable Player and a twelve-time All-Star, he was the centerpiece of the Celtics dynasty, winning eleven NBA championships during his thirteen-year career. Along with Henri Richard of the National Hockey League's Montreal Canadiens, Russell holds the record for the most championships won by an athlete in a North American sports league...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth12 February 1934
CityWest Monroe, LA
CountryUnited States of America
Learning is a daily experience and a lifetime mission. I truly believe in the saying "We work to become, not to acquire."
Commitment separates those who live their dreams from those who live their lives regretting the opportunities they have squandered.
The most important measure of how good a game I played was how much better I’d made my teammates play.
Success is a result of consistent practice of winning skills and actions. There is nothing miraculous about the process. There is no luck involved.
Once you reach a level communication where you have an exchange of ideas and some shared experiences, then eventually you get to the point where the color of your skin or your background is no longer what you use to describe a person. Now the coach-player relationship has more depth because it's based on more sincere feelings and respect.
We have done her injustice since the word go.
You can do anything you want to do if you want it bad enough
Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.
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.
The only important statistic is the final score.
Don't knock the ball in the stands, keep it in your hands!
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.
The most important thing to me is the friends that I've made.
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.