I can see why fans don’t like to watch pro basketball. I don’t, either. It’s not exciting.
LARRY BIRDI 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.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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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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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 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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My opinion about basketball, the way I was taught, was when you step on the court, you play to win.
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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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First master the fundamentals.
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I like being by myself.
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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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Basketball has been my life and I worked at it so hard because I enjoyed it so much.
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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.
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Push yourself again and again. Don’t give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use.
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Coaches can talk and talk and talk about something, but if you get it on tape and show it to them, it is so much more effective.
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I wanted to compete at the highest level again – and that’s the NBA.
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When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.
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