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.
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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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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You’re all playin’ for second place.
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Who in their right mind wouldn’t listen to what Larry Bird tells them? He knows what it takes to be a successful player, and he’s letting us do the things to have the success.
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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 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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Strength is not nearly as important as desire. I don’t think you can teach anyone desire. I think it’s a gift. I don’t know why I have it, but I do.
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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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Leadership is getting players to believe in you. 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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What’s better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
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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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There are many times when you are better off practicing than playing; but most people just don’t understand that
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I didn’t play against the toughest competition in high school, but one reason I was able to do well in college was that I mastered the fundamentals.
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My opinion about basketball, the way I was taught, was when you step on the court, you play to win.
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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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Maybe it’s God disguised as Michael Jordan.
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