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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.

Larry Bird

I can see why fans don’t like to watch pro basketball. I don’t, either. It’s not exciting.
LARRY BIRD

Basketball Either Excite Fan See Watch
I’ve got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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End Got Somehow Theory Time Work
Basketball was always a game to me. One of the greatest things in life for me was to be able to play what I loved dearly and get paid for it. So it was always a game to me and that’s how I perceived everything.
LARRY BIRD

Able Always Basketball Dearly Everything Game Get Greatest Life Love One Paid Perceive Play Thing
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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Brother Goal High Just Look Nest Now Player School Team
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.
LARRY BIRD

Accomplish Develop Fail Given One Recognize Skill Some Talent Winner Work
I knew I was as good as anybody. That’s not really bragging; it’s just that I’d put the time in.
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Anybody Bragging Good Just Put Really Time
I don’t think that once you get to one level, you can relax. You’ve got to keep pushing.
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Get Keep Level Once One Push Relax Think
I wanted to compete at the highest level again – and that’s the NBA.
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Again Complete Highest Level Nba Want
When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.
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Basketball Down Get When
I always know what’s happening on the court. I see a situation occur, and I respond.
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Always Court Happen Know Occur Respond Situation
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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Did Expect Play Player Teammate Then Way
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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Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball.
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Basketball Crucial Development Habit Practical
It doesn’t matter who scores the points, it’s who can get the ball to the scorer.
LARRY BIRD

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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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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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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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