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.
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Bill Russell
Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don't want to play.
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Sherman Alexie
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not
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Charles Barkley
We'd taken up our positions on the benches between the school hall and a newly-installed outdoor basketball court. Being hip-hoppers, we were obliged to be obsessed with basketball. None of us had a ball.
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Nikesh Shukla
The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.
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Phil Jackson
More Quotes By Bill Walton
His ability to evoke Celtic pride was incredible. He would always talk about how all the old players called him up after an embarrasing performance and wanted to disassociate themselves from the Celtics. They wanted to mail in their championship rings, wanted their numbers removed...
I tried to teach them [his sons] that about the importance of self-discipline, and that the culture of yes is built on a foundation of no.
The Grateful Dead, they're my best friends. Their message of hope, peace, love, teamwork, creativity, imagination, celebration, the dance, the vision, the purpose, the passion all of the things I believe in makes me the luckiest Deadhead in the world.
But you have to understand, my beard is so nasty. I mean, it's the only beard in the history of Western civilization that makes Bob Dylan's beard look good.
I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way they played, the teamwork, the sacrifice, the commitment, the joy, the camaraderie, the relationship with the fans.
