You never make any of the shots you never take. 87% of the ones you do take, you’ll miss too. I make 110% of my shots.
LARRY BIRDBasketball 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.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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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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Maybe it’s God disguised as Michael Jordan.
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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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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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Once you are labeled ‘the best’ you want to stay up there, and you can’t do it by loafing around.
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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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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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First master the fundamentals.
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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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You know when I played, you had me and Kevin (McHale) and some others throughout the league.
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Push yourself again and again. Don’t give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
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Don’t let winning make you soft. Don’t let losing make you quit. Don’t let your teammates down in any situation.
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The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.
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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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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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