The more you win, the better you’re gonna get. It grows on itself.
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.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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I hate to lose more than I like to win.
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You never make any of the shots you never take. 87% of the ones you do take, you’ll miss too. I make 110% of my shots.
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Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball.
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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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It doesn’t matter who scores the points, it’s who can get the ball to the scorer.
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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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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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The best players will play. That’s the way it will always be.
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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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I always know what’s happening on the court. I see a situation occur, and I respond.
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First master the fundamentals.
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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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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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The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.
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Maybe it’s God disguised as Michael Jordan.
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