I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
LARRY BIRDWhether 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.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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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..
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I like being by myself.
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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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Eminem. My son was listening to that and I was like, “What is that junk?” Then I started listening and I thought, You know, that kid is pretty good. It’s the storytelling.
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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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It doesn’t matter who scores the points, it’s who can get the ball to the scorer.
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Maybe it’s God disguised as Michael Jordan.
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You’re all playin’ for second place.
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First master the fundamentals.
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Anytime you’ve got an opportunity to play for your country and win a gold medal,
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Who in their right mind wouldn’t listen to what Larry Bird tells them? He knows what it takes to be a successful player, and he’s letting us do the things to have the success.
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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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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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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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Michael Jordan is God disguised as a basketball player.
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