Basketball has been my life and I worked at it so hard because I enjoyed it so much.
LARRY BIRDWhat’s better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
More Larry Bird Quotes
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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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You know when I played, you had me and Kevin (McHale) and some others throughout the league.
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The best basketball announcer is one who allows you to close your eyes.
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Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball.
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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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I don’t know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody – somewhere – was practicing more than me.
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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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A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
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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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The best players will play. That’s the way it will always be.
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The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.
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You’re all playin’ for second place.
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I’ve got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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You’ve got to have them down before you can even think about playing.
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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use.
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