I always know what’s happening on the court. I see a situation occur, and I respond.
LARRY BIRDPlayers will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you’re not giving it all you’ve got.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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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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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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I think a lot of blue collar people related to me because a lot of people work for their money.
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When I was a kid, like 14 or 15, I played with the waiters from the hotel, ’cause that was the best game. And these guys, they’d let me play. And they were black guys.
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I like being by myself.
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Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball.
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I just shoot until I feel good.
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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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The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.
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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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My name’s been on this check for a week now.
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Push yourself again and again. Don’t give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
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The more you win, the better you’re gonna get. It grows on itself.
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Before every game I used to go out and shot the same shots over and over and over. In the summer time I spent a lot of time just shooting. So really it just came natural.
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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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