You’ve got to have them down before you can even think about playing.
LARRY BIRDIt doesn’t matter who scores the points, it’s who can get the ball to the scorer.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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You know when I played, you had me and Kevin (McHale) and some others throughout the league.
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Strength is not nearly as important as desire. I don’t think you can teach anyone desire. I think it’s a gift. I don’t know why I have it, but I do.
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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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Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball.
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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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I learned what my weaknesses were and I went out the next day to turn those weaknesses intro strengths.
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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 was always making decisions and they were easier decisions because I had control of the game.
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The more you win, the better you’re gonna get. It grows on itself.
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As far as playing, I didn’t care who guarded me – red, yellow, black. I just didn’t want a white guy guarding me, because it’s disrespect to my game.
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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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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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Coaches can talk and talk and talk about something, but if you get it on tape and show it to them, it is so much more effective.
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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.
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The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.
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