It’s been a journey, the NBA. It’s taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.
LARRY BIRDPractice habits were crucial to my development in basketball.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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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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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 knew I was as good as anybody. That’s not really bragging; it’s just that I’d put the time in.
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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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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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Anytime you’ve got an opportunity to play for your country and win a gold medal,
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If there was a payment to the bank due, and we needed shoes, she’d get the shoes, and then deal with them guys at the bank. I don’t mean she wouldn’t pay the bank, but the children always came first.
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Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball.
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First master the fundamentals.
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What’s better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
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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 wanted to compete at the highest level again – and that’s the NBA.
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When I was a player, I didn’t expect my teammates to play the way I did. I did expect them to work hard every day and get better. And I never learned anything by losing.
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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.
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