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I wanted to compete at the highest level again – and that’s the NBA.

Larry Bird

My goal was just to try and be the best player on my high school team, and look where I am now. And that was still my goal as a young kid, just to try and be a little better than my brother was.
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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.
LARRY BIRD

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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use.
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Day Future Overzealous Store Student Use While
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.
LARRY BIRD

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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.
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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.
LARRY BIRD

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What’s better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
LARRY BIRD

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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.
LARRY BIRD

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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.
LARRY BIRD

Good Have Like Money Really Say Talk Want
The best basketball announcer is one who allows you to close your eyes.
LARRY BIRD

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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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You know when I played, you had me and Kevin (McHale) and some others throughout the league.
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You can make all the excuses you want, but if you’re not mentally tough and you’re not prepared to play every night, you’re not going to win.
LARRY BIRD

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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.
LARRY BIRD

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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..
LARRY BIRD

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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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