While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use.
LARRY BIRDIf there was a payment to the bank due, and we needed shoes, she’d get the shoes, and then deal with them guys at the bank. I don’t mean she wouldn’t pay the bank, but the children always came first.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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The nature of competition is such that any number of people invariably have their eyes on the same prize you do. Recognize your assets and employ them to the best of your ability.
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Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball.
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Maybe it’s God disguised as Michael Jordan.
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I have always been confident in my skills and once the game got going I knew I was probably the best player on the floor most of the time whether it was junior high, high school or college. I knew I had control of the game.
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I really don’t like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.
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The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.
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You can make all the excuses you want, but if you’re not mentally tough and you’re not prepared to play every night, you’re not going to win.
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It makes me sick when I see a guy just stare at a loose ball and watch it go out of bounds.
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I just shoot until I feel good.
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Who in their right mind wouldn’t listen to what Larry Bird tells them? He knows what it takes to be a successful player, and he’s letting us do the things to have the success.
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Michael Jordan is God disguised as a basketball player.
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I knew I was as good as anybody. That’s not really bragging; it’s just that I’d put the time in.
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You’ve got to have them down before you can even think about playing.
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My coach told me, “Larry, no matter how much you work at it, there’s always someone out there who’s working just a little harder – if you take 150 practice shots, he’s taking 200.” And that drove me.
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He who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
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