The more you win, the better you’re gonna get. It grows on itself.
LARRY BIRDThe best players will play. That’s the way it will always be.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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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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I was always making decisions and they were easier decisions because I had control of the game.
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Push yourself again and again. Don’t give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
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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’ve been around a while. I kinda know these things.
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I hate to lose more than I like to win.
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You’re all playin’ for second place.
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I’m a firm believer in that you play the way you practice.
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I think you have to work very hard and dedicate yourself and have the respect of your teammates before you’re about to go out and just try to take a game over by yourself.
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What’s better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
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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 mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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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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The best basketball announcer is one who allows you to close your eyes.
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Michael Jordan is God disguised as a basketball player.
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