When I was a kid, like 14 or 15, I played with the waiters from the hotel, ’cause that was the best game. And these guys, they’d let me play. And they were black guys.
LARRY BIRDI’ve got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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Maybe it’s God disguised as Michael Jordan.
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Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you’re not giving it all you’ve got.
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I wanted to compete at the highest level again – and that’s the NBA.
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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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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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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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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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Anytime you’ve got an opportunity to play for your country and win a gold medal,
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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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But it is a black man’s game, and it will be forever.
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I’ve been around a while. I kinda know these things.
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The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.
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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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When I go to the line I’m thinking ‘All net.’ When I don’t think that, I’m likely to miss.
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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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