When I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I got things exactly correct. My dream was to become a pro.
LARRY BIRDYou’ve got to have them down before you can even think about playing.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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What’s better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
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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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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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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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Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you’re not giving it all you’ve got.
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I don’t think that once you get to one level, you can relax. You’ve got to keep pushing.
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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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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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Maybe it’s God disguised as Michael Jordan.
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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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I’ve been around a while. I kinda know these things.
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I just shoot until I feel good.
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You’re all playin’ for second place.
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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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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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