Red Auerbach Quotes

“Who could better motivate Bill Russell than Bill Russell?”

“Realized dreams often turn into nightmares.”

“To come up with one great sentence, one needs to serve a life sentence.”

“To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.”

“To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination.”

“Just do what you do best.”

“The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.”

“Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”

“Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.”

“Bands from Akron have a sense of humor and don't tend to take themselves too seriously.”