The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.
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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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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First master the fundamentals.
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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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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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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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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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I wanted to compete at the highest level again – and that’s the NBA.
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I wasn’t real quick, and I wasn’t real strong. Some guys will just take off and it’s like, whoa. So I beat them with my mind and my fundamentals.
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Maybe it’s God disguised as Michael Jordan.
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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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I think a lot of blue collar people related to me because a lot of people work for their money.
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Leadership is getting players to believe in you. 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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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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A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
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Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball.
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