The best basketball announcer is one who allows you to close your eyes.
LARRY BIRDI used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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My goal was just to try and be the best player on my high school team, and look where I am now. And that was still my goal as a young kid, just to try and be a little better than my brother was.
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But it is a black man’s game, and it will be forever.
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Guys like Larry Bird — he played so hard, he wants everybody else to play hard. That’s not unreasonable. Any coach would want that and demand that.
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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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The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.
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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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When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.
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I wanted to compete at the highest level again – and that’s the NBA.
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When I go to the line I’m thinking ‘All net.’ When I don’t think that, I’m likely to miss.
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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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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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When I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I got things exactly correct. My dream was to become a pro.
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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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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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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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