I’ve been around a while. I kinda know these things.
LARRY BIRDI can see why fans don’t like to watch pro basketball. I don’t, either. It’s not exciting.
More Larry Bird Quotes
-
-
I like being by myself.
LARRY BIRD -
Basketball 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 BIRD -
In the closing seconds of every game, I want the ball in my hands for the last shot – not in anybody else’s, not in anybody else’s in the world.
LARRY BIRD -
I really don’t like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.
LARRY BIRD -
I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
LARRY BIRD -
I think a lot of blue collar people related to me because a lot of people work for their money.
LARRY BIRD -
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..
LARRY BIRD -
Before every game I used to go out and shot the same shots over and over and over. In the summer time I spent a lot of time just shooting. So really it just came natural.
LARRY BIRD -
It makes me sick when I see a guy just stare at a loose ball and watch it go out of bounds.
LARRY BIRD -
The best players will play. That’s the way it will always be.
LARRY BIRD -
What’s better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
LARRY BIRD -
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.
LARRY BIRD -
Anytime you’ve got an opportunity to play for your country and win a gold medal,
LARRY BIRD -
Don’t let winning make you soft. Don’t let losing make you quit. Don’t let your teammates down in any situation.
LARRY BIRD -
Michael Jordan is God disguised as a basketball player.
LARRY BIRD