You’re all playin’ for second place.
LARRY BIRDAs 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.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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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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Once you are labeled ‘the best’ you want to stay up there, and you can’t do it by loafing around.
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Push yourself again and again. Don’t give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
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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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Basketball has been my life and I worked at it so hard because I enjoyed it so much.
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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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Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball.
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Michael Jordan is God disguised as a basketball player.
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Anytime you’ve got an opportunity to play for your country and win a gold medal,
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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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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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When I go to the line I’m thinking ‘All net.’ When I don’t think that, I’m likely to miss.
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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.
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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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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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