Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you’re ready to play as tough as you’re able to, you’d better go out there and do it..
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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I 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.
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The best basketball announcer is one who allows you to close your eyes.
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The best players will play. That’s the way it will always be.
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I really don’t like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.
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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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Push yourself again and again. Don’t give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
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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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When 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.
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I think a lot of blue collar people related to me because a lot of people work for their money.
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You know when I played, you had me and Kevin (McHale) and some others throughout the league.
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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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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use.
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Before 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.
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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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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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