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"The MVP award was very satisfying in terms of personal accomplishments, but the championship was the most important thing of all."
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"Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful in anything that you put your mind to."
Success

"That seemed to be the case with most of the teams based in the smaller towns - the fans were more rabid, and they wanted to literally kill the opposition."
Intensity

"We hung out on the streets, played stickball, and did all of the things that other kids did."
Kids

"You have to remember that coaching wasn't sophisticated back then - you didn't have the camps, clinics and all the technical advances that are available today - so from that standpoint, playing with a cast on my arm was a fortunate event in my life."
Life

"People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been primarily aimed at African Americans."
Time

"But as a coach I wanted to keep things from being too complicated."
Being

"I grew up in the heart of the Depression."
Heart

"Russell joined the team in December, 1956, following the Olympics."
Biography

"The MVP award was very satisfying in terms of personal accomplishments, but the championship was the most important thing of all."
Accomplishment

"Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures."
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"Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this long - 81."
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"Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference."
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"I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real danger."
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"The greatest feeling of accomplishment for me is the fact that I was an athlete who was somewhat disabled."
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"I can now successfully drive a stick. That's a huge accomplishment."
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"Getting a degree, being on Sesame Street... those were like real accomplishments to me."
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"My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the measures best adapted to the accomplishment of those objects have been already submitted to you."
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"Being varied is something I do instinctively and naturally. I feel a tremendous sense of accomplishment."
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"As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along."
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"There is something very intriguing about, for example, the sense of accomplishment that a small child has, which you might be able to reduce to aggression and libido, but which might also have some independent existence."
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