But it is a black man’s game, and it will be forever.
LARRY BIRDWhen it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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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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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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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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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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When I was a kid, like 14 or 15, I played with the waiters from the hotel, ’cause that was the best game. And these guys, they’d let me play. And they were black guys.
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Michael Jordan is God disguised as a basketball player.
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The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.
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The best basketball announcer is one who allows you to close your eyes.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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