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.
LARRY BIRDIn 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.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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What’s better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
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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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Leadership is getting players to believe in you. 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 wasn’t real quick, and I wasn’t real strong. Some guys will just take off and it’s like, whoa. So I beat them with my mind and my fundamentals.
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I had control of the ball. As a coach you sort of put the ball in other player’s hands and let them make decisions for you. But I still get a kick out of winning basketball games and that’s what I’m in this for.
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Anytime you’ve got an opportunity to play for your country and win a gold medal,
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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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I was always making decisions and they were easier decisions because I had control of the game.
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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 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 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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Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball.
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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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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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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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