You’ve got to have them down before you can even think about playing.
LARRY BIRDI hate to lose more than I like to win.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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Eminem. My son was listening to that and I was like, “What is that junk?” Then I started listening and I thought, You know, that kid is pretty good. It’s the storytelling.
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Anytime you’ve got an opportunity to play for your country and win a gold medal,
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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But it is a black man’s game, and it will be forever.
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Once you are labeled ‘the best’ you want to stay up there, and you can’t do it by loafing around.
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What’s better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
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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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Michael Jordan is God disguised as a basketball player.
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