What’s better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
LARRY BIRDBefore 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.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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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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You’re all playin’ for second place.
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My name’s been on this check for a week now.
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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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I’ve been around a while. I kinda know these things.
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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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I like being by myself.
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I wanted to compete at the highest level again – and that’s the NBA.
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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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Push yourself again and again. Don’t give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
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I hate to lose more than I like to win.
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But it is a black man’s game, and it will be forever.
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I didn’t play against the toughest competition in high school, but one reason I was able to do well in college was that I mastered the fundamentals.
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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 makes me sick when I see a guy just stare at a loose ball and watch it go out of bounds.
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