You’ve got to have them down before you can even think about playing.
LARRY BIRDI always know what’s happening on the court. I see a situation occur, and I respond.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball.
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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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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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My coach told me, “Larry, no matter how much you work at it, there’s always someone out there who’s working just a little harder – if you take 150 practice shots, he’s taking 200.” And that drove me.
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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’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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When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.
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I didn’t play against the toughest competition in high school, but one reason I was able to do well in college was that I mastered the fundamentals.
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You can make all the excuses you want, but if you’re not mentally tough and you’re not prepared to play every night, you’re not going to win.
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I think a lot of blue collar people related to me because a lot of people work for their money.
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The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.
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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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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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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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