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Strength 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.

Larry Bird

When I was a player, I didn’t expect my teammates to play the way I did. I did expect them to work hard every day and get better. And I never learned anything by losing.
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Michael Jordan is God disguised as a basketball player.
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Practice habits were crucial to my development in 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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I think a lot of blue collar people related to me because a lot of people work for their money.
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Blue Collar Lot Money People Relate Think Work
I think that takes it all. That’s the greatest thing you could ever achieve in your sport. So, I have been very fortunate to play on great teams, but the gold medal was probably the best.
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Leadership is getting players to believe in you. 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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Able Better Get Leadership Play Teammate Tell Tough
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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The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.
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It’s been a journey, the NBA. It’s taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.
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There are many times when you are better off practicing than playing; but most people just don’t understand that
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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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Celebrity Else Everybody Guy Hard Like Play
While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use.
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Day Future Overzealous Store Student Use While
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’ve got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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Once you are labeled ‘the best’ you want to stay up there, and you can’t do it by loafing around.
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It makes me sick when I see a guy just stare at a loose ball and watch it go out of bounds.
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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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Day Into Learn Next Strength Weakness Went
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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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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Able Better Do Out Play Ready Teammamte Tell Tough
I like being by myself.
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Being Like Myself
Maybe it’s God disguised as Michael Jordan.
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Celebrity Country Disguise God Maybe People Person
It doesn’t matter who scores the points, it’s who can get the ball to the scorer.
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Push yourself again and again. Don’t give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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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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My name’s been on this check for a week now.
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Been Check Name Now Week

Strength 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.

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