I can see why fans don’t like to watch pro basketball. I don’t, either. It’s not exciting.
LARRY BIRDBut it is a black man’s game, and it will be forever.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.
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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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Push yourself again and again. Don’t give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
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Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It’s being able to take it as well as dish it out. That’s the only way you’re going to get respect from the players.
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He who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
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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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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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It makes me sick when I see a guy just stare at a loose ball and watch it go out of bounds.
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The best players will play. That’s the way it will always be.
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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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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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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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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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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 wanted to compete at the highest level again – and that’s the NBA.
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