I don’t think that once you get to one level, you can relax. You’ve got to keep pushing.
LARRY BIRDIt makes me sick when I see a guy just stare at a loose ball and watch it go out of bounds.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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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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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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When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.
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I wanted to compete at the highest level again – and that’s the NBA.
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You’re all playin’ for second place.
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In the closing seconds of every game, I want the ball in my hands for the last shot – not in anybody else’s, not in anybody else’s in the world.
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I’ve been around a while. I kinda know these things.
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First master the fundamentals.
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I hate to lose more than I like 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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What’s better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
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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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Guys like Larry Bird — he played so hard, he wants everybody else to play hard. That’s not unreasonable. Any coach would want that and demand that.
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The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.
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I like being by myself.
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