While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use.
LARRY BIRDWhile day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use.
LARRY BIRDLeadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It’s being able to take it as well as dish it out. That’s the only way you’re going to get respect from the players.
LARRY BIRDPush yourself again and again. Don’t give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
LARRY BIRDI really don’t like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.
LARRY BIRDThe best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.
LARRY BIRDBasketball has been my life and I worked at it so hard because I enjoyed it so much.
LARRY BIRDIf 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 mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
LARRY BIRDIt’s been a journey, the NBA. It’s taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.
LARRY BIRDBut it is a black man’s game, and it will be forever.
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.
LARRY BIRDBefore every game I used to go out and shot the same shots over and over and over. In the summer time I spent a lot of time just shooting. So really it just came natural.
LARRY BIRDPractice habits were crucial to my development in basketball.
LARRY BIRDOnce you are labeled ‘the best’ you want to stay up there, and you can’t do it by loafing around.
LARRY BIRDWhen I was a kid, like 14 or 15, I played with the waiters from the hotel, ’cause that was the best game. And these guys, they’d let me play. And they were black guys.
LARRY BIRDMy name’s been on this check for a week now.
LARRY BIRD