Push yourself again and again. Don’t give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
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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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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You can make all the excuses you want, but if you’re not mentally tough and you’re not prepared to play every night, you’re not going to win.
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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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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 learned what my weaknesses were and I went out the next day to turn those weaknesses intro strengths.
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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 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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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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My opinion about basketball, the way I was taught, was when you step on the court, you play to win.
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You’ve got to have them down before you can even think about playing.
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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’ve always been interested in jobs in the NBA. But I’ve been in this for 20 years and it might be time to do something else.
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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Coaches can talk and talk and talk about something, but if you get it on tape and show it to them, it is so much more effective.
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Michael Jordan is God disguised as a basketball player.
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