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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..

Larry Bird

I don’t think that once you get to one level, you can relax. You’ve got to keep pushing.
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Get Keep Level Once One Push Relax Think
I’ve been around a while. I kinda know these things.
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Around Been Kinda Know These Thing While
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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Bets Cause Fifteen Fourteen Game Hotel Play Waiter When
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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In the closing seconds of every game, I want the ball in my hands for the last shot – not in anybody else’s, not in anybody else’s in the world.
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There are many times when you are better off practicing than playing; but most people just don’t understand that
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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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When I was a player, I didn’t expect my teammates to play the way I did. I did expect them to work hard every day and get better. And I never learned anything by losing.
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Did Expect Play Player Teammate Then Way
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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It doesn’t matter who scores the points, it’s who can get the ball to the scorer.
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Anytime you’ve got an opportunity to play for your country and win a gold medal,
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The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.
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I really don’t like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.
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I always know what’s happening on the court. I see a situation occur, and I respond.
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But it is a black man’s game, and it will be forever.
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