It doesn’t matter who scores the points, it’s who can get the ball to the scorer.
LARRY BIRDBut it is a black man’s game, and it will be forever.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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The nature of competition is such that any number of people invariably have their eyes on the same prize you do. Recognize your assets and employ them to the best of your ability.
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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use.
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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 opinion about basketball, the way I was taught, was when you step on the court, you play to win.
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You’ve got to have them down before you can even think about playing.
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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 just shoot until I feel good.
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Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you’re not giving it all you’ve got.
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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 think a lot of blue collar people related to me because a lot of people work for their money.
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You’re all playin’ for second place.
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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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The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.
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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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When I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I got things exactly correct. My dream was to become a pro.
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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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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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Before every game I used to go out and shot the same shots over and over and over. In the summer time I spent a lot of time just shooting. So really it just came natural.
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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 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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Leadership is getting players to believe in you. 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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You never make any of the shots you never take. 87% of the ones you do take, you’ll miss too. I make 110% of my shots.
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But it is a black man’s game, and it will be forever.
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When I was a player, I didn’t expect my teammates to play the way I did. I did expect them to work hard every day and get better. And I never learned anything by losing.
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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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