The more you win, the better you’re gonna get. It grows on itself.
LARRY BIRDWhen I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I got things exactly correct. My dream was to become a pro.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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Basketball was always a game to me. One of the greatest things in life for me was to be able to play what I loved dearly and get paid for it. So it was always a game to me and that’s how I perceived everything.
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You never make any of the shots you never take. 87% of the ones you do take, you’ll miss too. I make 110% of my shots.
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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 just shoot until I feel good.
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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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I wanted to compete at the highest level again – and that’s the NBA.
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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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The best players will play. That’s the way it will always be.
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Eminem. My son was listening to that and I was like, “What is that junk?” Then I started listening and I thought, You know, that kid is pretty good. It’s the storytelling.
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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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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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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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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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I learned what my weaknesses were and I went out the next day to turn those weaknesses intro strengths.
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I knew I was as good as anybody. That’s not really bragging; it’s just that I’d put the time in.
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