The nature of competition is such that any number of people invariably have their eyes on the same prize you do. Recognize your assets and employ them to the best of your ability.
LARRY BIRDPractice habits were crucial to my development in basketball.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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I don’t think that once you get to one level, you can relax. You’ve got to keep pushing.
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What’s better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
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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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Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball.
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My goal was just to try and be the best player on my high school team, and look where I am now. And that was still my goal as a young kid, just to try and be a little better than my brother was.
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I hate to lose more than I like to win.
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I’ve been around a while. I kinda know these things.
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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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My name’s been on this check for a week now.
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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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When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.
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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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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.
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Michael Jordan is God disguised as a basketball player.
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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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