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It doesn’t matter who scores the points, it’s who can get the ball to the scorer.

Larry Bird

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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It doesn’t matter who scores the points, it’s who can get the ball to the scorer.
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Anytime you’ve got an opportunity to play for your country and win a gold medal,
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There are many times when you are better off practicing than playing; but most people just don’t understand that
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Maybe it’s God disguised as Michael Jordan.
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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 think a lot of blue collar people related to me because a lot of people work for their money.
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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 just shoot until I feel good.
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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.
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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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You know when I played, you had me and Kevin (McHale) and some others throughout the league.
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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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You’ve got to have them down before you can even think about playing.
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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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I hate to lose more than I like to win.
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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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Basketball has been my life and I worked at it so hard because I enjoyed it so much.
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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 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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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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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use.
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I think that takes it all. That’s the greatest thing you could ever achieve in your sport. So, I have been very fortunate to play on great teams, but the gold medal was probably the best.
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But it is a black man’s game, and it will be forever.
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Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball.
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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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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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