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Larry Bird

Once you are labeled ‘the best’ you want to stay up there, and you can’t do it by loafing around.
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The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.
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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use.
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Eminem. My son was listening to that and I was like, “What is that junk?” Then I started listening and I thought, You know, that kid is pretty good. It’s the storytelling.
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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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I learned what my weaknesses were and I went out the next day to turn those weaknesses intro strengths.
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Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball.
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I wasn’t real quick, and I wasn’t real strong. Some guys will just take off and it’s like, whoa. So I beat them with my mind and my fundamentals.
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I can see why fans don’t like to watch pro basketball. I don’t, either. It’s not exciting.
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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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Who in their right mind wouldn’t listen to what Larry Bird tells them? He knows what it takes to be a successful player, and he’s letting us do the things to have the success.
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I didn’t play against the toughest competition in high school, but one reason I was able to do well in college was that I mastered the fundamentals.
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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 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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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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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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You’ve got to have them down before you can even think about playing.

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