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.
LARRY BIRDPractice habits were crucial to my development in basketball.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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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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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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Basketball has been my life and I worked at it so hard because I enjoyed it so much.
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Guys like Larry Bird — he played so hard, he wants everybody else to play hard. That’s not unreasonable. Any coach would want that and demand that.
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The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.
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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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There are many times when you are better off practicing than playing; but most people just don’t understand that
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You can make all the excuses you want, but if you’re not mentally tough and you’re not prepared to play every night, you’re not going to win.
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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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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But it is a black man’s game, and it will be forever.
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The more you win, the better you’re gonna get. It grows on itself.
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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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You’ve got to have them down before you can even think about playing.
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