You never make any of the shots you never take. 87% of the ones you do take, you’ll miss too. I make 110% of my shots.
LARRY BIRDI really don’t like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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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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I really don’t like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.
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My coach told me, “Larry, no matter how much you work at it, there’s always someone out there who’s working just a little harder – if you take 150 practice shots, he’s taking 200.” And that drove me.
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The more you win, the better you’re gonna get. It grows on itself.
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First master the fundamentals.
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But it is a black man’s game, and it will be forever.
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You’re all playin’ for second place.
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I just shoot until I feel good.
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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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My opinion about basketball, the way I was taught, was when you step on the court, you play to win.
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The best players will play. That’s the way it will always be.
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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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Maybe it’s God disguised as Michael Jordan.
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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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You know when I played, you had me and Kevin (McHale) and some others throughout the league.
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