Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball.
LARRY BIRDWhen 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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As far as playing, I didn’t care who guarded me – red, yellow, black. I just didn’t want a white guy guarding me, because it’s disrespect to my game.
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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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Basketball has been my life and I worked at it so hard because I enjoyed it so much.
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When I was a player, I didn’t expect my teammates to play the way I did. I did expect them to work hard every day and get better. And I never learned anything by losing.
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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use.
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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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Michael Jordan is God disguised as a basketball player.
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I wanted to compete at the highest level again – and that’s the NBA.
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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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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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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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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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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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I can see why fans don’t like to watch pro basketball. I don’t, either. It’s not exciting.
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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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