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 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’m a firm believer in that you play the way you practice.
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Push yourself again and again. Don’t give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
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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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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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The best players will play. That’s the way it will always be.
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If there was a payment to the bank due, and we needed shoes, she’d get the shoes, and then deal with them guys at the bank. I don’t mean she wouldn’t pay the bank, but the children always came first.
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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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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 mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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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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The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.
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I was always making decisions and they were easier decisions because I had control of the game.
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Maybe it’s God disguised as Michael Jordan.
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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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