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.
LARRY BIRDWhen it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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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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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 always know what’s happening on the court. I see a situation occur, and I respond.
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My name’s been on this check for a week now.
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I was always making decisions and they were easier decisions because I had control of the game.
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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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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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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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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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Basketball was always a game to me. One of the greatest things in life for me was to be able to play what I loved dearly and get paid for it. So it was always a game to me and that’s how I perceived everything.
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Maybe it’s God disguised as Michael Jordan.
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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use.
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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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Who in their right mind wouldn’t listen to what Larry Bird tells them? He knows what it takes to be a successful player, and he’s letting us do the things to have the success.
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