I guarantee you, if you could give me 10 points in all those seventh games against the Boston Celtics, instead of Bill Russell having 11 rings, I could've at least had nine or eight.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Personal honors never meant much to Bill Russell, one of America's most successful athletes with 2 college titles, 1 Olympic gold medal and 11 - count 'em, 11 - N.B.A. championships with the Boston Celtics.
In college, I probably lost a total of about 11 games, and then I came to the Celtics and in my first three weeks we went on a nine-game losing streak.
I was an all-around player - if I was just a scorer, there's no way the Hawks would have won 50 games four years in a row.
If someone were to ask me before I made the NBA, you going to have to go through all this, you're going to have to sign your soul away to play in the league, I still would have done it.
No matter how much you've won, no matter how many games, no matter how many championships, no matter how many Super Bowls, you're not winning now, so you stink.
Just soaking up the history of the Boston Celtics has been the best thing that's happened to me as a player.
I'd rather have 10 Super Bowl trophies and no MVPs.
There are one-hundred fifty-four games in a season and you can find one-hundred fifty-four reasons why your team should have won every one of them.
If you have a bad day in baseball, and start thinking about it, you will have 10 more.
When I was playing, there were only eight teams in each league, and you didn't have any playoffs.