Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It’s being able to take it as well as dish it out. That’s the only way you’re going to get respect from the players.
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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I wanted to compete at the highest level again – and that’s the NBA.
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Don’t let winning make you soft. Don’t let losing make you quit. Don’t let your teammates down in any situation.
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Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball.
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The best players will play. That’s the way it will always be.
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I’ve always been interested in jobs in the NBA. But I’ve been in this for 20 years and it might be time to do something else.
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You never make any of the shots you never take. 87% of the ones you do take, you’ll miss too. I make 110% of my shots.
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I just shoot until I feel good.
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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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What’s better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
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Once you are labeled ‘the best’ you want to stay up there, and you can’t do it by loafing around.
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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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When I was a player, I didn’t expect my teammates to play the way I did. I did expect them to work hard every day and get better. And I never learned anything by losing.
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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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When I was a kid, like 14 or 15, I played with the waiters from the hotel, ’cause that was the best game. And these guys, they’d let me play. And they were black guys.
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If you tell a teammate you’re ready to play as tough as you’re able to, you’d better go out there and do it.
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