I’ve been around a while. I kinda know these things.
LARRY BIRDWhen I go to the line I’m thinking ‘All net.’ When I don’t think that, I’m likely to miss.
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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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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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 best players will play. That’s the way it will always be.
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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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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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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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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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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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Coaches can talk and talk and talk about something, but if you get it on tape and show it to them, it is so much more effective.
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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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It’s been a journey, the NBA. It’s taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.
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Whether 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.
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I had control of the ball. As a coach you sort of put the ball in other player’s hands and let them make decisions for you. But I still get a kick out of winning basketball games and that’s what I’m in this for.
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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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