I’ve got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
LARRY BIRDI like being by myself.
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 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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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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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 think it’s good for a fan base because as we all know the majority of the fans are white America. And if you just had a couple of white guys in there, you might get them a little excited.
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When I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I got things exactly correct. My dream was to become a pro.
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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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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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I learned what my weaknesses were and I went out the next day to turn those weaknesses intro strengths.
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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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A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
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I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
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When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.
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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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You can make all the excuses you want, but if you’re not mentally tough and you’re not prepared to play every night, you’re not going to win.
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