I can see why fans don’t like to watch pro basketball. I don’t, either. It’s not exciting.
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’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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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.
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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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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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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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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 wanted to compete at the highest level again – and that’s the NBA.
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When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.
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I always know what’s happening on the court. I see a situation occur, and I respond.
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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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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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It doesn’t matter who scores the points, it’s who can get the ball to the scorer.
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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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