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.
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 mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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Maybe it’s God disguised as Michael Jordan.
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Push yourself again and again. Don’t give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
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Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball.
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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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If there was a payment to the bank due, and we needed shoes, she’d get the shoes, and then deal with them guys at the bank. I don’t mean she wouldn’t pay the bank, but the children always came first.
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It makes me sick when I see a guy just stare at a loose ball and watch it go out of bounds.
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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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What’s better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
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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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I can see why fans don’t like to watch pro basketball. I don’t, either. It’s not exciting.
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First master the fundamentals.
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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 didn’t play against the toughest competition in high school, but one reason I was able to do well in college was that I mastered the fundamentals.
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