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Larry Bird

I was always making decisions and they were easier decisions because I had control of the game.
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Always Ball Control Decision Easier Game Make
Leadership is getting players to believe in you. 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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Able Better Get Leadership Play Teammate Tell Tough
You’ve got to have them down before you can even think about playing.
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Before Down Play Think When
I wanted to compete at the highest level again – and that’s the NBA.
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Again Complete Highest Level Nba Want
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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Always Been Best Confident Floor Game Go Got Knew Most Once Player Probably Skill Time
Basketball 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.
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Able Always Basketball Dearly Everything Game Get Greatest Life Love One Paid Perceive Play Thing
Push yourself again and again. Don’t give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
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Again Buzzer Final Inch Push Sound Yourself
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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Anybody Enough Know More Practical Practice Somebody Somewhere Still Wonder
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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Before Dedicate Go Hard Out Respect Teammate Think Try Work Yourself
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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Brother Goal High Just Look Nest Now Player School Team
I’ve been around a while. I kinda know these things.
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Around Been Kinda Know These Thing While
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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Any Before Dhot Game Go Natural Over Same Summer Use
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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Anybody Ball Closing Else Every Game Hand Last Second Shot Want
The more you win, the better you’re gonna get. It grows on itself.
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Better Get Gonna Grow Itself More Win
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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Able Ball Being Crowd Dish Drive Get Involve Leadership Loose Player Take Well
You know when I played, you had me and Kevin (McHale) and some others throughout the league.
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Celebrity Country Know League Other People Person Play Throughout

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