I’ve got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
LARRY BIRDOnce you are labeled ‘the best’ you want to stay up there, and you can’t do it by loafing around.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you’re not giving it all you’ve got.
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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use.
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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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Before every game I used to go out and shot the same shots over and over and over. In the summer time I spent a lot of time just shooting. So really it just came natural.
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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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It doesn’t matter who scores the points, it’s who can get the ball to the scorer.
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Whether it’s a tie game or down by 1 or up by five, it was always the same shot. So I always felt comfortable with the ball in my hands because it was in there a million times before.
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Maybe it’s God disguised as Michael Jordan.
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What’s better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
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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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I wanted to compete at the highest level again – and that’s the NBA.
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You’re all playin’ for second place.
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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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When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.
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