Maybe it’s God disguised as Michael Jordan.
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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You’re all playin’ for second place.
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What’s better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
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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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When I go to the line I’m thinking ‘All net.’ When I don’t think that, I’m likely to miss.
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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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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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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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You’ve got to have them down before you can even think about playing.
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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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I just shoot until I feel good.
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But it is a black man’s game, and it will be forever.
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I wanted to compete at the highest level again – and that’s the NBA.
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I hate to lose more than I like to win.
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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 always been interested in jobs in the NBA. But I’ve been in this for 20 years and it might be time to do something else.
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