I like being by myself.
LARRY BIRDYou know when I played, you had me and Kevin (McHale) and some others throughout the league.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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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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What’s better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
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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 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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Anytime you’ve got an opportunity to play for your country and win a gold medal,
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You can make all the excuses you want, but if you’re not mentally tough and you’re not prepared to play every night, you’re not going to win.
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You’ve got to have them down before you can even think about playing.
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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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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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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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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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You’re all playin’ for second place.
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But it is a black man’s game, and it will be forever.
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I’m a firm believer in that you play the way you practice.
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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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