There are many times when you are better off practicing than playing; but most people just don’t understand that
LARRY BIRDI like being by myself.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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I wasn’t real quick, and I wasn’t real strong. Some guys will just take off and it’s like, whoa. So I beat them with my mind and my fundamentals.
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You’ve got to have them down before you can even think about playing.
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Before every game I used to go out and shot the same shots over and over and over. In the summer time I spent a lot of time just shooting. So really it just came natural.
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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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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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Eminem. My son was listening to that and I was like, “What is that junk?” Then I started listening and I thought, You know, that kid is pretty good. It’s the storytelling.
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My opinion about basketball, the way I was taught, was when you step on the court, you play to win.
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I learned what my weaknesses were and I went out the next day to turn those weaknesses intro strengths.
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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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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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Maybe it’s God disguised as Michael Jordan.
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I was always making decisions and they were easier decisions because I had control of the game.
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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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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use.
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I think a lot of blue collar people related to me because a lot of people work for their money.
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