The best basketball announcer is one who allows you to close your eyes.
LARRY BIRDThe best basketball announcer is one who allows you to close your eyes.
LARRY BIRDI like being by myself.
LARRY BIRDBasketball 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.
LARRY BIRDThe best players will play. That’s the way it will always be.
LARRY BIRDI mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
LARRY BIRDLeadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It’s being able to take it as well as dish it out. That’s the only way you’re going to get respect from the players.
LARRY BIRDGuys 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.
LARRY BIRDAnytime you’ve got an opportunity to play for your country and win a gold medal,
LARRY BIRDI think you have to work very hard and dedicate yourself and have the respect of your teammates before you’re about to go out and just try to take a game over by yourself.
LARRY BIRDIt makes me sick when I see a guy just stare at a loose ball and watch it go out of bounds.
LARRY BIRDWhile day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use.
LARRY BIRDThe more you win, the better you’re gonna get. It grows on itself.
LARRY BIRDIt doesn’t matter who scores the points, it’s who can get the ball to the scorer.
LARRY BIRDI can see why fans don’t like to watch pro basketball. I don’t, either. It’s not exciting.
LARRY BIRDYou know when I played, you had me and Kevin (McHale) and some others throughout the league.
LARRY BIRDHe 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.
LARRY BIRD