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.
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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But it is a black man’s game, and it will be forever.
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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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I wanted to compete at the highest level again – and that’s the NBA.
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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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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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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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Leadership is getting players to believe in you. 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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Basketball has been my life and I worked at it so hard because I enjoyed it so much.
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As far as playing, I didn’t care who guarded me – red, yellow, black. I just didn’t want a white guy guarding me, because it’s disrespect to my game.
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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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I think a lot of blue collar people related to me because a lot of people work for their money.
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When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.
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It makes me sick when I see a guy just stare at a loose ball and watch it go out of bounds.
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I can see why fans don’t like to watch pro basketball. I don’t, either. It’s not exciting.
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