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 BIRDI 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.
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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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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Maybe it’s God disguised as Michael Jordan.
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I wanted to compete at the highest level again – and that’s the NBA.
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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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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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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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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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You know when I played, you had me and Kevin (McHale) and some others throughout the league.
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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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The more you win, the better you’re gonna get. It grows on itself.
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First master the fundamentals.
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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’s been a journey, the NBA. It’s taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.
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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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