When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.
LARRY BIRDIn 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.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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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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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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When I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I got things exactly correct. My dream was to become a pro.
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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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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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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 wanted to compete at the highest level again – and that’s the NBA.
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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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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.
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I don’t think that once you get to one level, you can relax. You’ve got to keep pushing.
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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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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..
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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use.
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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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