Basketball has been my life and I worked at it so hard because I enjoyed it so much.
LARRY BIRDThe best players will play. That’s the way it will always be.
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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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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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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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Anytime you’ve got an opportunity to play for your country and win a gold medal,
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I have always been confident in my skills and once the game got going I knew I was probably the best player on the floor most of the time whether it was junior high, high school or college. I knew I had control of the game.
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I always know what’s happening on the court. I see a situation occur, and I respond.
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Basketball was always a game to me. One of the greatest things in life for me was to be able to play what I loved dearly and get paid for it. So it was always a game to me and that’s how I perceived everything.
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Who in their right mind wouldn’t listen to what Larry Bird tells them? He knows what it takes to be a successful player, and he’s letting us do the things to have the success.
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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 learned what my weaknesses were and I went out the next day to turn those weaknesses intro strengths.
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The best players will play. That’s the way it will always be.
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Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It’s being able to take it as well as dish it out. That’s the only way you’re going to get respect from the players.
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What’s better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
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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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I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
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