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Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball.

Larry Bird

It doesn’t matter who scores the points, it’s who can get the ball to the scorer.
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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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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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The best players will play. That’s the way it will always be.
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A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
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I think you have to work very hard and dedicate yourself and have the respect of your teammates before you’re about to go out and just try to take a game over by yourself.
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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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I think that takes it all. That’s the greatest thing you could ever achieve in your sport. So, I have been very fortunate to play on great teams, but the gold medal was probably the best.
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It’s been a journey, the NBA. It’s taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.
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Basketball has been my life and I worked at it so hard because I enjoyed it so much.
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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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The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.
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Maybe it’s God disguised as Michael Jordan.
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When I go to the line I’m thinking ‘All net.’ When I don’t think that, I’m likely to miss.
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I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
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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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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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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.
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In the closing seconds of every game, I want the ball in my hands for the last shot – not in anybody else’s, not in anybody else’s in the world.
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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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You’ve got to have them down before you can even think about playing.
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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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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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I’ve got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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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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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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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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