I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
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The best basketball announcer is one who allows you to close your eyes.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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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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Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball.
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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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It’s been a journey, the NBA. It’s taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.
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If 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.
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Don’t let winning make you soft. Don’t let losing make you quit. Don’t let your teammates down in any situation.
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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Guys like Larry Bird — he played so hard, he wants everybody else to play hard. That’s not unreasonable. Any coach would want that and demand that.
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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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What’s better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
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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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