I really don’t like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.
LARRY BIRDI really don’t like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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The best players will play. That’s the way it will always be.
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Push yourself again and again. Don’t give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
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As far as playing, I didn’t care who guarded me – red, yellow, black. I just didn’t want a white guy guarding me, because it’s disrespect to my game.
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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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You’re all playin’ for second place.
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The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.
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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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The nature of competition is such that any number of people invariably have their eyes on the same prize you do. Recognize your assets and employ them to the best of your ability.
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I can see why fans don’t like to watch pro basketball. I don’t, either. It’s not exciting.
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I think that takes it all. That’s the greatest thing you could ever achieve in your sport. So, I have been very fortunate to play on great teams, but the gold medal was probably the best.
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I wanted to compete at the highest level again – and that’s the NBA.
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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 hate to lose more than I like to win.
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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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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