Basketball has been my life and I worked at it so hard because I enjoyed it so much.
LARRY BIRDI mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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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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There are many times when you are better off practicing than playing; but most people just don’t understand that
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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 was always making decisions and they were easier decisions because I had control of the game.
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Michael Jordan is God disguised as a basketball player.
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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 hate to lose more than I like to win.
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In the closing seconds of every game, I want the ball in my hands for the last shot – not in anybody else’s, not in anybody else’s in the world.
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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 don’t think that once you get to one level, you can relax. You’ve got to keep pushing.
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When I was a player, I didn’t expect my teammates to play the way I did. I did expect them to work hard every day and get better. And I never learned anything by losing.
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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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Anytime you’ve got an opportunity to play for your country and win a gold medal,
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The more you win, the better you’re gonna get. It grows on itself.
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I’ve been around a while. I kinda know these things.
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