You know when I played, you had me and Kevin (McHale) and some others throughout the league.
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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When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.
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I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
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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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The best players will play. That’s the way it will always be.
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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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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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Who in their right mind wouldn’t listen to what Larry Bird tells them? He knows what it takes to be a successful player, and he’s letting us do the things to have the success.
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I hate to lose more than I like to win.
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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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But it is a black man’s game, and it will be forever.
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The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.
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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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There are many times when you are better off practicing than playing; but most people just don’t understand that
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I like being by myself.
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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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