Once you are labeled ‘the best’ you want to stay up there, and you can’t do it by loafing around.
LARRY BIRDI think a lot of blue collar people related to me because a lot of people work for their money.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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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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You know when I played, you had me and Kevin (McHale) and some others throughout the league.
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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..
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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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Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball.
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What’s better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
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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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It’s been a journey, the NBA. It’s taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.
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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.
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First master the fundamentals.
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Anytime you’ve got an opportunity to play for your country and win a gold medal,
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The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.
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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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I like being by myself.
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