Michael Jordan is God disguised as a basketball player.
LARRY BIRDBut it is a black man’s game, and it will be forever.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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I like being by myself.
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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 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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Once you are labeled ‘the best’ you want to stay up there, and you can’t do it by loafing around.
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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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I wasn’t real quick, and I wasn’t real strong. Some guys will just take off and it’s like, whoa. So I beat them with my mind and my fundamentals.
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My coach told me, “Larry, no matter how much you work at it, there’s always someone out there who’s working just a little harder – if you take 150 practice shots, he’s taking 200.” And that drove me.
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Strength is not nearly as important as desire. I don’t think you can teach anyone desire. I think it’s a gift. I don’t know why I have it, but I do.
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But it is a black man’s game, and it will be forever.
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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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I didn’t play against the toughest competition in high school, but one reason I was able to do well in college was that I mastered the fundamentals.
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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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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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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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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