I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
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.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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You can make all the excuses you want, but if you’re not mentally tough and you’re not prepared to play every night, you’re not going to win.
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I learned what my weaknesses were and I went out the next day to turn those weaknesses intro strengths.
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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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Strength is not nearly as important as desire. I don’t think you can teach anyone desire. I think it’s a gift. I don’t know why I have it, but I do.
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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 think you have to work very hard and dedicate yourself and have the respect of your teammates before you’re about to go out and just try to take a game over by yourself.
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Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball.
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I’ve got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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Basketball was always a game to me. One of the greatest things in life for me was to be able to play what I loved dearly and get paid for it. So it was always a game to me and that’s how I perceived everything.
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.
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My goal was just to try and be the best player on my high school team, and look where I am now. And that was still my goal as a young kid, just to try and be a little better than my brother was.
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I’ve always been interested in jobs in the NBA. But I’ve been in this for 20 years and it might be time to do something else.
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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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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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