I think a lot of blue collar people related to me because a lot of people work for their money.
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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You’re all playin’ for second place.
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Whether it’s a tie game or down by 1 or up by five, it was always the same shot. So I always felt comfortable with the ball in my hands because it was in there a million times before.
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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.
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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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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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I always know what’s happening on the court. I see a situation occur, and I respond.
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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.
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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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When I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I got things exactly correct. My dream was to become a pro.
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I think it’s good for a fan base because as we all know the majority of the fans are white America. And if you just had a couple of white guys in there, you might get them a little excited.
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Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball.
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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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Michael Jordan is God disguised as a basketball player.
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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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What’s better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
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