When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.
LARRY BIRDWhile day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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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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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 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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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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You’ve got to have them down before you can even think about playing.
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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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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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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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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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I’m a firm believer in that you play the way you practice.
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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’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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The best players will play. That’s the way it will always be.
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I think a lot of blue collar people related to me because a lot of people work for their money.
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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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