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..
LARRY BIRDThe best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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I think a lot of blue collar people related to me because a lot of people work for their money.
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I learned what my weaknesses were and I went out the next day to turn those weaknesses intro strengths.
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Maybe it’s God disguised as Michael Jordan.
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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 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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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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Basketball has been my life and I worked at it so hard because I enjoyed it so much.
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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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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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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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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use.
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I was always making decisions and they were easier decisions because I had control of the game.
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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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Whether it’s a tie game or down by 1 or up by five, it was always the same shot. So I always felt comfortable with the ball in my hands because it was in there a million times before.
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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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