Bill Russell
FameRank: 8

"As player:"

* 11× List of NBA champions/NBA champion

* 5× NBA Most Valuable Player Award/NBA Most Valuable Player (, –, )

* 12× List of NBA All-Stars/NBA All-Star (–)

* NBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award/NBA All-Star Game MVP ()

* 3× All-NBA Team/All-NBA First Team (, , )

* 8× All-NBA Second Team (, –, , –)

* NBA All-Defensive Team/NBA All-Defensive First Team ()

* 4× List of National Basketball Association season rebounding leaders/NBA rebounding champion (–, –)

* 50 Greatest Players in NBA History/NBA 50th Anniversary Team

* NBA 35th Anniversary Team

* NBA 25th Anniversary Team

* No. 6 List of Boston Celtics accomplishments and records#Retired numbers/retired by the Boston Celtics

* 2× List of NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Champions/NCAA champion (1955 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament/1955–1956 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament/1956)

* NCAA Basketball Tournament Most Outstanding Player/NCAA Tournament Most Outstanding Player (1955 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament/1955)

* UPI College Basketball Player of the Year/UPI College Player of the Year (1956)

* 2× Helms Foundation College Basketball Player of the Year/Helms Player of the Year (1955–1956)

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I think what has happened to our basketball team, we've been badly distracted. They're not reading too many positive things in the paper.

The morale and the camaraderie that we had for one another earlier in the year is starting to come under duress because of all the losses. Some of the guys are feeling the pressure now from the last year when they were not successful.

Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.

The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.

The 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.

Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.

We have done her injustice since the word go.

If it's proven in a court of law she was wronged, she can sue for millions because this is defamation of character.

What's more important than who's going to be the first black manager is who's going to be the first black sports editor of the New York Times.