The best basketball announcer is one who allows you to close your eyes.
LARRY BIRDI’ve always been interested in jobs in the NBA. But I’ve been in this for 20 years and it might be time to do something else.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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My name’s been on this check for a week now.
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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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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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When I was a kid, like 14 or 15, I played with the waiters from the hotel, ’cause that was the best game. And these guys, they’d let me play. And they were black guys.
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I’ve got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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Michael Jordan is God disguised as a basketball player.
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But it is a black man’s game, and it will be forever.
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The best players will play. That’s the way it will always be.
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I think it’s good for a fan base because as we all know the majority of the fans are white America. And if you just had a couple of white guys in there, you might get them a little excited.
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He who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
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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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I’ve always been interested in jobs in the NBA. But I’ve been in this for 20 years and it might be time to do something else.
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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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My opinion about basketball, the way I was taught, was when you step on the court, you play to win.
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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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