I hate to lose more than I like to win.
LARRY BIRDPractice habits were crucial to my development in basketball.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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What’s better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
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The more you win, the better you’re gonna get. It grows on itself.
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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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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.
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The best players will play. That’s the way it will always be.
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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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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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Maybe it’s God disguised as Michael Jordan.
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It’s been a journey, the NBA. It’s taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.
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I think it’s good for a fan base because as we all know the majority of the fans are white America. And if you just had a couple of white guys in there, you might get them a little excited.
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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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I learned what my weaknesses were and I went out the next day to turn those weaknesses intro strengths.
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The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.
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I think you have to work very hard and dedicate yourself and have the respect of your teammates before you’re about to go out and just try to take a game over by yourself.
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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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