I really don’t like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.
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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I have always been confident in my skills and once the game got going I knew I was probably the best player on the floor most of the time whether it was junior high, high school or college. I knew I had control of the game.
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I hate to lose more than I like to win.
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But it is a black man’s game, and it will be forever.
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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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A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use.
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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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I just shoot until I feel good.
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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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I don’t think that once you get to one level, you can relax. You’ve got to keep pushing.
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I’ve been around a while. I kinda know these things.
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Eminem. My son was listening to that and I was like, “What is that junk?” Then I started listening and I thought, You know, that kid is pretty good. It’s the storytelling.
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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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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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