The best basketball announcer is one who allows you to close your eyes.
LARRY BIRDI’ve been around a while. I kinda know these things.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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I think you have to work very hard and dedicate yourself and have the respect of your teammates before you’re about to go out and just try to take a game over by yourself.
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I don’t know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody – somewhere – was practicing more than me.
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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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As far as playing, I didn’t care who guarded me – red, yellow, black. I just didn’t want a white guy guarding me, because it’s disrespect to my game.
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Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball.
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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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You’re all playin’ for second place.
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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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I like being by myself.
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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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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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I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
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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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I can see why fans don’t like to watch pro basketball. I don’t, either. It’s not exciting.
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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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