The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.
LARRY BIRDYou can make all the excuses you want, but if you’re not mentally tough and you’re not prepared to play every night, you’re not going to win.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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You’re all playin’ for second place.
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Michael Jordan is God disguised as a basketball player.
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You know when I played, you had me and Kevin (McHale) and some others throughout the league.
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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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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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It doesn’t matter who scores the points, it’s who can get the ball to the scorer.
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Maybe it’s God disguised as Michael Jordan.
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What’s better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
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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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The more you win, the better you’re gonna get. It grows on itself.
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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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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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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 just shoot until I feel good.
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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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