Who in their right mind wouldn’t listen to what Larry Bird tells them? He knows what it takes to be a successful player, and he’s letting us do the things to have the success.
LARRY BIRDThe best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
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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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I hate to lose more than I like to win.
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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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My goal was just to try and be the best player on my high school team, and look where I am now. And that was still my goal as a young kid, just to try and be a little better than my brother was.
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What’s better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
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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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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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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use.
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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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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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The more you win, the better you’re gonna get. It grows on itself.
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Eminem. My son was listening to that and I was like, “What is that junk?” Then I started listening and I thought, You know, that kid is pretty good. It’s the storytelling.
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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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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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