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.
LARRY BIRDStrength is not nearly as important as desire. I don’t think you can teach anyone desire. I think it’s a gift. I don’t know why I have it, but I do.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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I’m a firm believer in that you play the way you practice.
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I wanted to compete at the highest level again – and that’s the NBA.
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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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Michael Jordan is God disguised as a basketball player.
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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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The more you win, the better you’re gonna get. It grows on itself.
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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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You’re all playin’ for second place.
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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 know when I played, you had me and Kevin (McHale) and some others throughout the league.
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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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I learned what my weaknesses were and I went out the next day to turn those weaknesses intro strengths.
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He who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
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I have always been confident in my skills and once the game got going I knew I was probably the best player on the floor most of the time whether it was junior high, high school or college. I knew I had control of the game.
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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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