I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
LARRY BIRDThe one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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When I go to the line I’m thinking ‘All net.’ When I don’t think that, I’m likely to miss.
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You’ve got to have them down before you can even think about playing.
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First master the fundamentals.
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Don’t let winning make you soft. Don’t let losing make you quit. Don’t let your teammates down in any situation.
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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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The best players will play. That’s the way it will always be.
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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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Anytime you’ve got an opportunity to play for your country and win a gold medal,
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I wasn’t real quick, and I wasn’t real strong. Some guys will just take off and it’s like, whoa. So I beat them with my mind and my fundamentals.
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I learned what my weaknesses were and I went out the next day to turn those weaknesses intro strengths.
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There are many times when you are better off practicing than playing; but most people just don’t understand that
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Maybe it’s God disguised as Michael Jordan.
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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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It doesn’t matter who scores the points, it’s who can get the ball to the scorer.
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