I was always making decisions and they were easier decisions because I had control of the game.
LARRY BIRDThe more you win, the better you’re gonna get. It grows on itself.
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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Maybe it’s God disguised as Michael Jordan.
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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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Anytime you’ve got an opportunity to play for your country and win a gold medal,
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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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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 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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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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Basketball has been my life and I worked at it so hard because I enjoyed it so much.
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I’ve been around a while. I kinda know these things.
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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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You know when I played, you had me and Kevin (McHale) and some others throughout the league.
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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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What’s better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
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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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