I’ve always been interested in jobs in the NBA. But I’ve been in this for 20 years and it might be time to do something else.
LARRY BIRDIt doesn’t matter who scores the points, it’s who can get the ball to the scorer.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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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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I didn’t play against the toughest competition in high school, but one reason I was able to do well in college was that I mastered the fundamentals.
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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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What’s better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
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When I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I got things exactly correct. My dream was to become a pro.
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Anytime you’ve got an opportunity to play for your country and win a gold medal,
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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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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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Michael Jordan is God disguised as a basketball player.
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You’ve got to have them down before you can even think about playing.
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You’re all playin’ for second place.
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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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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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The best players will play. That’s the way it will always be.
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It makes me sick when I see a guy just stare at a loose ball and watch it go out of bounds.
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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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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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The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.
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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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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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Leadership 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.
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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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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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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’ve been around a while. I kinda know these things.
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