I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
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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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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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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I hate to lose more than I like to win.
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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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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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You can make all the excuses you want, but if you’re not mentally tough and you’re not prepared to play every night, you’re not going to win.
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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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It’s been a journey, the NBA. It’s taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.
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Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball.
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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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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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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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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’re all playin’ for second place.
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