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 RussellMy 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.
Bill RussellThe 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 RussellI think that David Stern is probably the greatest commissioner that any sport has ever had in the history of this country.
Bill RussellI don't have very many regrets, not because I lived a perfect life but because life is a bunch of rolling hills, not mountains, or speed bumps instead of stop signs, and so you come to a situation and it's neither good or bad, it just is, and what it means to you is what's your take on it. But the second part of the equation is what are you going to do about it. A lot of times I'm completely wrong, but all you do is back up and start over.
Bill Russell