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 BIRDPlayers will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you’re not giving it all you’ve got.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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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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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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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’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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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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Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball.
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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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But it is a black man’s game, and it will be forever.
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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’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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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use.
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When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.
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I knew I was as good as anybody. That’s not really bragging; it’s just that I’d put the time in.
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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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I’ve been around a while. I kinda know these things.
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