I just shoot until I feel good.
LARRY BIRDThe best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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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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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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What’s better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
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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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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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Basketball has been my life and I worked at it so hard because I enjoyed it so much.
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Basketball was always a game to me. One of the greatest things in life for me was to be able to play what I loved dearly and get paid for it. So it was always a game to me and that’s how I perceived everything.
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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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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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The more you win, the better you’re gonna get. It grows on itself.
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You’re all playin’ for second place.
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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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When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.
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I can see why fans don’t like to watch pro basketball. I don’t, either. It’s not exciting.
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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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