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Larry Bird

You know when I played, you had me and Kevin (McHale) and some others throughout the league.
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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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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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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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You’ve got to have them down before you can even think about playing.
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Before Down Play Think When
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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Maybe it’s God disguised as Michael Jordan.
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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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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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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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He who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
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But it is a black man’s game, and it will be forever.
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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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When I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I got things exactly correct. My dream was to become a pro.
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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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Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball.
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