BILL RUSSELL:
5 - NBA Most Valuable Player Awards
12 - NBA All-Stars
11 - NBA Championships
2 - NCAA National Championships at San Francisco
1 - Gold Medal at the Summer Olympics
Below Bill Russell talks about how his attitude changed after he'd been overlooked for player of the year honors when he played college basketball at San Francisco.
"It was then and there that I determined, 'If my team wins a championship every year, there's no quarrel anyone can come up with to deny me that. Winning is the only thing I really cared about. I found that when I left my childhood and came into the real world that individual awards were mostly political."
But winning and losing, there are no politics, only numbers. It's the most democratic thing in the world. Your either a winner or a loser, so I decided early in my career that the only really important thing was to try to win every game. The only thing that really mattered was who won -- and there is nothing subjective about that."
