It’s been a journey, the NBA. It’s taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.
LARRY BIRDBasketball has been my life and I worked at it so hard because I enjoyed it so much.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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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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Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball.
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Maybe it’s God disguised as Michael Jordan.
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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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When I go to the line I’m thinking ‘All net.’ When I don’t think that, I’m likely to miss.
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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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It doesn’t matter who scores the points, it’s who can get the ball to the scorer.
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Anytime you’ve got an opportunity to play for your country and win a gold medal,
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I knew I was as good as anybody. That’s not really bragging; it’s just that I’d put the time in.
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You never make any of the shots you never take. 87% of the ones you do take, you’ll miss too. I make 110% of my shots.
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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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Michael Jordan is God disguised as a basketball player.
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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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The best players will play. That’s the way it will always be.
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I hate to lose more than I like to win.
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