“Who could better motivate Bill Russell than Bill Russell?”

“The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.”

“Just do what you do best.”

“To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.”

“I never took a position we were going to be a good ball club. I took the position we were going to be a winning ball club.”

“You handle animals. You deal with people.”

“Higher-level capture devices, because they are complicated and involve novel applications of new technologies, tend to fail in unexpected ways. Thus, only after some years was it realized that Hot ...”

“Winning isn't everything--but wanting to win is.”

“Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.”