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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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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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’m a firm believer in that you play the way you practice.
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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 mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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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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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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There are many times when you are better off practicing than playing; but most people just don’t understand that
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He who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
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It’s been a journey, the NBA. It’s taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.
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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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You’re all playin’ for second place.
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I always know what’s happening on the court. I see a situation occur, and I respond.
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You know when I played, you had me and Kevin (McHale) and some others throughout the league.
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When I go to the line I’m thinking ‘All net.’ When I don’t think that, I’m likely to miss.
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