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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.

Larry Bird

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’m a firm believer in that you play the way you practice.
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You never make any of the shots you never take. 87% of the ones you do take, you’ll miss too. I make 110% of my shots.
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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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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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Basketball has been my life and I worked at it so hard because I enjoyed it so much.
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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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My opinion about basketball, the way I was taught, was when you step on the court, you play to win.
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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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When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.
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I was always making decisions and they were easier decisions because I had control of the game.
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When I was a kid, like 14 or 15, I played with the waiters from the hotel, ’cause that was the best game. And these guys, they’d let me play. And they were black guys.
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The best players will play. That’s the way it will always be.
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It makes me sick when I see a guy just stare at a loose ball and watch it go out of bounds.
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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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It’s been a journey, the NBA. It’s taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.
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