The best players will play. That’s the way it will always be.
LARRY BIRDMy 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.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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The more you win, the better you’re gonna get. It grows on itself.
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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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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 have always been confident in my skills and once the game got going I knew I was probably the best player on the floor most of the time whether it was junior high, high school or college. I knew I had control of the game.
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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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Basketball has been my life and I worked at it so hard because I enjoyed it so much.
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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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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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You’re all playin’ for second place.
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I hate to lose more than I like to win.
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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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If there was a payment to the bank due, and we needed shoes, she’d get the shoes, and then deal with them guys at the bank. I don’t mean she wouldn’t pay the bank, but the children always came first.
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I don’t think that once you get to one level, you can relax. You’ve got to keep pushing.
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I think it’s good for a fan base because as we all know the majority of the fans are white America. And if you just had a couple of white guys in there, you might get them a little excited.
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