I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
LARRY BIRDWhat’s better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
More Larry Bird Quotes
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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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First master the fundamentals.
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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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You’ve got to have them down before you can even think about playing.
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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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I just shoot until I feel good.
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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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The best players will play. That’s the way it will always be.
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Once you are labeled ‘the best’ you want to stay up there, and you can’t do it by loafing around.
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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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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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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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I’ve been around a while. I kinda know these things.
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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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