Anytime you’ve got an opportunity to play for your country and win a gold medal,
LARRY BIRDI 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.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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Basketball was always a game to me. One of the greatest things in life for me was to be able to play what I loved dearly and get paid for it. So it was always a game to me and that’s how I perceived everything.
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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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There are many times when you are better off practicing than playing; but most people just don’t understand that
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When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.
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Michael Jordan is God disguised as a basketball player.
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You’re all playin’ for second place.
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Maybe it’s God disguised as Michael Jordan.
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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 always know what’s happening on the court. I see a situation occur, and I respond.
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I’ve got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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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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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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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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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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Don’t let winning make you soft. Don’t let losing make you quit. Don’t let your teammates down in any situation.
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