Michael Jordan is God disguised as a basketball player.
LARRY BIRDYou know when I played, you had me and Kevin (McHale) and some others throughout the league.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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I wanted to compete at the highest level again – and that’s the NBA.
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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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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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First master the fundamentals.
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Maybe it’s God disguised as Michael Jordan.
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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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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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What’s better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
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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 mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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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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It doesn’t matter who scores the points, it’s who can get the ball to the scorer.
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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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Whether it’s a tie game or down by 1 or up by five, it was always the same shot. So I always felt comfortable with the ball in my hands because it was in there a million times before.
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