I have always been confident in my skills and once the game got going I knew I was probably the best player on the floor most of the time whether it was junior high, high school or college. I knew I had control of the game.
LARRY BIRDGuys 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.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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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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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use.
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It doesn’t matter who scores the points, it’s who can get the ball to the scorer.
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Anytime you’ve got an opportunity to play for your country and win a gold medal,
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He who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
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What’s better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
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I’m a firm believer in that you play the way you practice.
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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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I didn’t play against the toughest competition in high school, but one reason I was able to do well in college was that I mastered the fundamentals.
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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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The nature of competition is such that any number of people invariably have their eyes on the same prize you do. Recognize your assets and employ them to the best of your ability.
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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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When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.
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You’re all playin’ for second place.
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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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