The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.
LARRY BIRDI mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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I wasn’t real quick, and I wasn’t real strong. Some guys will just take off and it’s like, whoa. So I beat them with my mind and my fundamentals.
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I just shoot until I feel good.
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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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I had control of the ball. As a coach you sort of put the ball in other player’s hands and let them make decisions for you. But I still get a kick out of winning basketball games and that’s what I’m in this for.
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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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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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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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I think a lot of blue collar people related to me because a lot of people work for their money.
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I hate to lose more than I like to win.
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The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.
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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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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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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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You know when I played, you had me and Kevin (McHale) and some others throughout the league.
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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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