Once you are labeled ‘the best’ you want to stay up there, and you can’t do it by loafing around.
LARRY BIRDI just shoot until I feel good.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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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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I think that takes it all. That’s the greatest thing you could ever achieve in your sport. So, I have been very fortunate to play on great teams, but the gold medal was probably the best.
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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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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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In the closing seconds of every game, I want the ball in my hands for the last shot – not in anybody else’s, not in anybody else’s in the world.
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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I was always making decisions and they were easier decisions because I had control of the game.
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When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.
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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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Don’t let winning make you soft. Don’t let losing make you quit. Don’t let your teammates down in any situation.
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I think a lot of blue collar people related to me because a lot of people work for their money.
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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 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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Push yourself again and again. Don’t give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
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I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
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