You never make any of the shots you never take. 87% of the ones you do take, you’ll miss too. I make 110% of my shots.
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
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The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.
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As far as playing, I didn’t care who guarded me – red, yellow, black. I just didn’t want a white guy guarding me, because it’s disrespect to my game.
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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 coach told me, “Larry, no matter how much you work at it, there’s always someone out there who’s working just a little harder – if you take 150 practice shots, he’s taking 200.” And that drove me.
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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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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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I don’t think that once you get to one level, you can relax. You’ve got to keep pushing.
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What’s better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
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I always know what’s happening on the court. I see a situation occur, and I respond.
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Michael Jordan is God disguised as a basketball player.
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I just shoot until I feel good.
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Whether it’s a tie game or down by 1 or up by five, it was always the same shot. So I always felt comfortable with the ball in my hands because it was in there a million times before.
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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.
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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.
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Maybe it’s God disguised as Michael Jordan.
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