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.
LARRY BIRDYou 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.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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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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I’ve always been interested in jobs in the NBA. But I’ve been in this for 20 years and it might be time to do something else.
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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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Anytime you’ve got an opportunity to play for your country and win a gold medal,
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I really don’t like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.
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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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Strength is not nearly as important as desire. I don’t think you can teach anyone desire. I think it’s a gift. I don’t know why I have it, but I do.
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I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
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First master the fundamentals.
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The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.
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I’ve been around a while. I kinda know these things.
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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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The best players will play. That’s the way it will always be.
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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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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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