First master the fundamentals.
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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It’s been a journey, the NBA. It’s taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.
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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 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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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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Leadership is getting players to believe in you. 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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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 doesn’t matter who scores the points, it’s who can get the ball to the scorer.
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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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I’ve been around a while. I kinda know these things.
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Maybe it’s God disguised as Michael Jordan.
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The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.
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Once you are labeled ‘the best’ you want to stay up there, and you can’t do it by loafing around.
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Push yourself again and again. Don’t give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
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He who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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