"To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, to love someone who loves you is everything."
"The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot."
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Source: Bill Russell, Taylor Branch (1980). “Second wind: the memoirs of an opinionated man”
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