I can see why fans don’t like to watch pro basketball. I don’t, either. It’s not exciting.
LARRY BIRDThe best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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I like being by myself.
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Coaches can talk and talk and talk about something, but if you get it on tape and show it to them, it is so much more effective.
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You’ve got to have them down before you can even think about playing.
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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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My name’s been on this check for a week now.
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I wanted to compete at the highest level again – and that’s the NBA.
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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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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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But it is a black man’s game, and it will be forever.
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You’re all playin’ for second place.
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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.
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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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I just shoot until I feel good.
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What’s better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
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If there was a payment to the bank due, and we needed shoes, she’d get the shoes, and then deal with them guys at the bank. I don’t mean she wouldn’t pay the bank, but the children always came first.
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