I wanted to compete at the highest level again – and that’s the NBA.
LARRY BIRDLeadership 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..
More Larry Bird Quotes
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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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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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I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
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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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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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I can see why fans don’t like to watch pro basketball. I don’t, either. It’s not exciting.
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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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You know when I played, you had me and Kevin (McHale) and some others throughout the league.
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I just shoot until I feel good.
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He who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
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The best players will play. That’s the way it will always be.
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First master the fundamentals.
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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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I have always been confident in my skills and once the game got going I knew I was probably the best player on the floor most of the time whether it was junior high, high school or college. I knew I had control of the game.
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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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Push yourself again and again. Don’t give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
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Michael Jordan is God disguised as a basketball player.
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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 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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I had control of the ball. As a coach you sort of put the ball in other player’s hands and let them make decisions for you. But I still get a kick out of winning basketball games and that’s what I’m in this for.
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Basketball has been my life and I worked at it so hard because I enjoyed it so much.
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I like being by myself.
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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You’ve got to have them down before you can even think about playing.
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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use.
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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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