When I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I got things exactly correct. My dream was to become a pro.
LARRY BIRDWhat’s better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
More Larry Bird Quotes
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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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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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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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Basketball has been my life and I worked at it so hard because I enjoyed it so much.
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Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you’re not giving it all you’ve got.
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My name’s been on this check for a week now.
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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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Michael Jordan is God disguised as a basketball player.
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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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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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Don’t let winning make you soft. Don’t let losing make you quit. Don’t let your teammates down in any situation.
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You’re all playin’ for second place.
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I had control of the ball. As a coach you sort of put the ball in other player’s hands and let them make decisions for you. But I still get a kick out of winning basketball games and that’s what I’m in this for.
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The nature of competition is such that any number of people invariably have their eyes on the same prize you do. Recognize your assets and employ them to the best of your ability.
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You’ve got to have them down before you can even think about playing.
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Push yourself again and again. Don’t give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use.
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I wanted to compete at the highest level again – and that’s the NBA.
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The best players will play. That’s the way it will always be.
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I just shoot until I feel good.
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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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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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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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I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
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Guys like Larry Bird — he played so hard, he wants everybody else to play hard. That’s not unreasonable. Any coach would want that and demand that.
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I hate to lose more than I like to win.
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