Maybe it’s God disguised as Michael Jordan.
LARRY BIRDI was always making decisions and they were easier decisions because I had control of the game.
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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My opinion about basketball, the way I was taught, was when you step on the court, you play to win.
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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 mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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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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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’ve been around a while. I kinda know these things.
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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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It doesn’t matter who scores the points, it’s who can get the ball to the scorer.
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Michael Jordan is God disguised as a basketball player.
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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 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 think that once you get to one level, you can relax. You’ve got to keep pushing.
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The more you win, the better you’re gonna get. It grows on itself.
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I hate to lose more than I like to win.
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