My name’s been on this check for a week now.
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.
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I don’t know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody – somewhere – was practicing more than me.
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I hate to lose more than I like to win.
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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use.
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The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.
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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 just shoot until I feel good.
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I don’t think that once you get to one level, you can relax. You’ve got to keep pushing.
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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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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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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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When I go to the line I’m thinking ‘All net.’ When I don’t think that, I’m likely to miss.
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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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Michael Jordan is God disguised as a basketball player.
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First master the fundamentals.
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