The best basketball announcer is one who allows you to close your eyes.
LARRY BIRDWhile day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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When I was a player, I didn’t expect my teammates to play the way I did. I did expect them to work hard every day and get better. And I never learned anything by losing.
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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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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’ve been around a while. I kinda know these things.
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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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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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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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First master the fundamentals.
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You’re all playin’ for second place.
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My coach told me, “Larry, no matter how much you work at it, there’s always someone out there who’s working just a little harder – if you take 150 practice shots, he’s taking 200.” And that drove me.
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I 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.
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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.
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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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I was always making decisions and they were easier decisions because I had control of the game.
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