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.
LARRY BIRDI hate to lose more than I like to win.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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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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I have always been confident in my skills and once the game got going I knew I was probably the best player on the floor most of the time whether it was junior high, high school or college. I knew I had control of the game.
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When I was a player, I didn’t expect my teammates to play the way I did. I did expect them to work hard every day and get better. And I never learned anything by losing.
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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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It’s been a journey, the NBA. It’s taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.
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A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
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First master the fundamentals.
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Maybe it’s God disguised as Michael Jordan.
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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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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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I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
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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.
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I wasn’t real quick, and I wasn’t real strong. Some guys will just take off and it’s like, whoa. So I beat them with my mind and my fundamentals.
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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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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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