I always know what’s happening on the court. I see a situation occur, and I respond.
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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The more you win, the better you’re gonna get. It grows on itself.
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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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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’m a firm believer in that you play the way you practice.
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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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It’s been a journey, the NBA. It’s taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.
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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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Push yourself again and again. Don’t give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
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What’s better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
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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 know when I played, you had me and Kevin (McHale) and some others throughout the league.
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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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Whether it’s a tie game or down by 1 or up by five, it was always the same shot. So I always felt comfortable with the ball in my hands because it was in there a million times before.
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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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My opinion about basketball, the way I was taught, was when you step on the court, you play to win.
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