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.
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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The best players will play. That’s the way it will always be.
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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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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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 like being by myself.
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Leadership 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.
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As far as playing, I didn’t care who guarded me – red, yellow, black. I just didn’t want a white guy guarding me, because it’s disrespect to my game.
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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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Michael Jordan is God disguised as a basketball player.
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Who 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.
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I was always making decisions and they were easier decisions because I had control of the game.
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I’ve been around a while. I kinda know these things.
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You never make any of the shots you never take. 87% of the ones you do take, you’ll miss too. I make 110% of my shots.
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It makes me sick when I see a guy just stare at a loose ball and watch it go out of bounds.
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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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