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.
LARRY BIRDI 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.
LARRY BIRDBasketball 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.
LARRY BIRDPractice habits were crucial to my development in basketball.
LARRY BIRDYou’ve got to have them down before you can even think about playing.
LARRY BIRDWhat’s better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
LARRY BIRDThe best players will play. That’s the way it will always be.
LARRY BIRDI’ve got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
LARRY BIRDMy name’s been on this check for a week now.
LARRY BIRDI’m a firm believer in that you play the way you practice.
LARRY BIRDIt doesn’t matter who scores the points, it’s who can get the ball to the scorer.
LARRY BIRDI think that takes it all. That’s the greatest thing you could ever achieve in your sport. So, I have been very fortunate to play on great teams, but the gold medal was probably the best.
LARRY BIRDWho in their right mind wouldn’t listen to what Larry Bird tells them? He knows what it takes to be a successful player, and he’s letting us do the things to have the success.
LARRY BIRDYou know when I played, you had me and Kevin (McHale) and some others throughout the league.
LARRY BIRDI’ve been around a while. I kinda know these things.
LARRY BIRDFirst master the fundamentals.
LARRY BIRDI always know what’s happening on the court. I see a situation occur, and I respond.
LARRY BIRD