You’ve got to have them down before you can even think about playing.
LARRY BIRDThe best players will play. That’s the way it will always be.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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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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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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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 wanted to compete at the highest level again – and that’s the NBA.
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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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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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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 basketball announcer is one who allows you to close your eyes.
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My opinion about basketball, the way I was taught, was when you step on the court, you play to win.
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I’ve got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.
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First master the fundamentals.
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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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It doesn’t matter who scores the points, it’s who can get the ball to the scorer.
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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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The best players will play. That’s the way it will always be.
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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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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use.
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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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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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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’ve been around a while. I kinda know these things.
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I really don’t like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.
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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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The more you win, the better you’re gonna get. It grows on itself.
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