Don’t let winning make you soft. Don’t let losing make you quit. Don’t let your teammates down in any situation.
LARRY BIRDAnytime you’ve got an opportunity to play for your country and win a gold medal,
More Larry Bird Quotes
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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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I just shoot until I feel good.
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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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Michael Jordan is God disguised as a basketball player.
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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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When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.
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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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Basketball has been my life and I worked at it so hard because I enjoyed it so much.
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It doesn’t matter who scores the points, it’s who can get the ball to the scorer.
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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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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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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 mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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But it is a black man’s game, and it will be forever.
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Push yourself again and again. Don’t give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
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