I don’t know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody – somewhere – was practicing more than me.
LARRY BIRDThe more you win, the better you’re gonna get. It grows on itself.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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Anytime you’ve got an opportunity to play for your country and win a gold medal,
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I just shoot until I feel good.
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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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I like being by myself.
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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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You’ve got to have them down before you can even think about playing.
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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 used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
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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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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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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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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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Basketball was always a game to me. One of the greatest things in life for me was to be able to play what I loved dearly and get paid for it. So it was always a game to me and that’s how I perceived everything.
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Don’t let winning make you soft. Don’t let losing make you quit. Don’t let your teammates down in any situation.
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