If 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.
LARRY BIRDBasketball was always a game to me. One of the greatest things in life for me was to be able to play what I loved dearly and get paid for it. So it was always a game to me and that’s how I perceived everything.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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Michael Jordan is God disguised as a basketball player.
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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use.
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The best players will play. That’s the way it will always be.
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Whether it’s a tie game or down by 1 or up by five, it was always the same shot. So I always felt comfortable with the ball in my hands because it was in there a million times before.
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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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I was always making decisions and they were easier decisions because I had control of the game.
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I always know what’s happening on the court. I see a situation occur, and I respond.
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I hate to lose more than I like to win.
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Guys like Larry Bird — he played so hard, he wants everybody else to play hard. That’s not unreasonable. Any coach would want that and demand that.
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As far as playing, I didn’t care who guarded me – red, yellow, black. I just didn’t want a white guy guarding me, because it’s disrespect to my game.
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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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Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you’re not giving it all you’ve got.
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You’ve got to have them down before you can even think about playing.
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I’ve been around a while. I kinda know these things.
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I had control of the ball. As a coach you sort of put the ball in other player’s hands and let them make decisions for you. But I still get a kick out of winning basketball games and that’s what I’m in this for.
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