Push yourself again and again. Don’t give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
LARRY BIRDThe more you win, the better you’re gonna get. It grows on itself.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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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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My name’s been on this check for a week now.
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I wanted to compete at the highest level again – and that’s the NBA.
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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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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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It doesn’t matter who scores the points, it’s who can get the ball to the scorer.
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When I was a player, I didn’t expect my teammates to play the way I did. I did expect them to work hard every day and get better. And I never learned anything by losing.
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What’s better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
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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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It makes me sick when I see a guy just stare at a loose ball and watch it go out of bounds.
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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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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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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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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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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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