I just shoot until I feel good.
LARRY BIRDIf 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.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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I always know what’s happening on the court. I see a situation occur, and I respond.
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My coach told me, “Larry, no matter how much you work at it, there’s always someone out there who’s working just a little harder – if you take 150 practice shots, he’s taking 200.” And that drove me.
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The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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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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I’ve been around a while. I kinda know these things.
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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.
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Michael Jordan is God disguised as a basketball player.
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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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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use.
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I like being by myself.
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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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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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Coaches can talk and talk and talk about something, but if you get it on tape and show it to them, it is so much more effective.
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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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