There are many times when you are better off practicing than playing; but most people just don’t understand that
LARRY BIRDYou’re all playin’ for second place.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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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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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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I always know what’s happening on the court. I see a situation occur, and I respond.
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I’ve always been interested in jobs in the NBA. But I’ve been in this for 20 years and it might be time to do something else.
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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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My opinion about basketball, the way I was taught, was when you step on the court, you play to win.
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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 used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use.
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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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When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.
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What’s better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
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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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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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Basketball has been my life and I worked at it so hard because I enjoyed it so much.
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