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.
LARRY BIRDI hate to lose more than I like to win.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.
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A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
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First master the fundamentals.
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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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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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I learned what my weaknesses were and I went out the next day to turn those weaknesses intro strengths.
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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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I wanted to compete at the highest level again – and that’s the NBA.
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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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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use.
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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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But it is a black man’s game, and it will be forever.
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The best players will play. That’s the way it will always be.
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I have always been confident in my skills and once the game got going I knew I was probably the best player on the floor most of the time whether it was junior high, high school or college. I knew I had control of the game.
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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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