I was always making decisions and they were easier decisions because I had control of the game.
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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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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I think it’s good for a fan base because as we all know the majority of the fans are white America. And if you just had a couple of white guys in there, you might get them a little excited.
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I like being by myself.
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Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball.
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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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Coaches can talk and talk and talk about something, but if you get it on tape and show it to them, it is so much more effective.
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What’s better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
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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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I don’t know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody – somewhere – was practicing more than me.
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The best players will play. That’s the way it will always be.
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I can see why fans don’t like to watch pro basketball. I don’t, either. It’s not exciting.
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It doesn’t matter who scores the points, it’s who can get the ball to the scorer.
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I just shoot until I feel good.
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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 it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.
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