"To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, to love someone who loves you is everything."
"I hope I epitomize the American dream. For I came against long odds, from the ghetto to the very top of my profession. I was not immediately good at basketball. It did not come easy. It came as the result of a lot of hard work and self-sacrifice. The rewards, where they worth it? One thousand times over."
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Source: Bill Russell, Taylor Branch (1980). “Second wind: the memoirs of an opinionated man”
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