The 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.
LARRY BIRDI’ve got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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I don’t know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody – somewhere – was practicing more than me.
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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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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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My coach told me, “Larry, no matter how much you work at it, there’s always someone out there who’s working just a little harder – if you take 150 practice shots, he’s taking 200.” And that drove me.
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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 didn’t play against the toughest competition in high school, but one reason I was able to do well in college was that I mastered the fundamentals.
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Maybe it’s God disguised as Michael Jordan.
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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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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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I wanted to compete at the highest level again – and that’s the NBA.
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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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You know when I played, you had me and Kevin (McHale) and some others throughout the league.
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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use.
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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.
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You’ve got to have them down before you can even think about playing.
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