I don’t know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody – somewhere – was practicing more than me.
LARRY BIRDMy name’s been on this check for a week now.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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The nature of competition is such that any number of people invariably have their eyes on the same prize you do. Recognize your assets and employ them to the best of your ability.
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What’s better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
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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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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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I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
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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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It’s been a journey, the NBA. It’s taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.
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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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Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball.
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But it is a black man’s game, and it will be forever.
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First master the fundamentals.
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My goal was just to try and be the best player on my high school team, and look where I am now. And that was still my goal as a young kid, just to try and be a little better than my brother was.
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Maybe it’s God disguised as Michael Jordan.
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It doesn’t matter who scores the points, it’s who can get the ball to the scorer.
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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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