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.
LARRY BIRDI don’t think that once you get to one level, you can relax. You’ve got to keep pushing.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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Maybe it’s God disguised as Michael Jordan.
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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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As far as playing, I didn’t care who guarded me – red, yellow, black. I just didn’t want a white guy guarding me, because it’s disrespect to my game.
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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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You know when I played, you had me and Kevin (McHale) and some others throughout the league.
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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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Basketball has been my life and I worked at it so hard because I enjoyed it so much.
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I’ve been around a while. I kinda know these things.
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You’ve got to have them down before you can even think about playing.
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Push yourself again and again. Don’t give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
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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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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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A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
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Whether it’s a tie game or down by 1 or up by five, it was always the same shot. So I always felt comfortable with the ball in my hands because it was in there a million times before.
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It makes me sick when I see a guy just stare at a loose ball and watch it go out of bounds.
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