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.
LARRY BIRDMichael Jordan is God disguised as a basketball player.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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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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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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But it is a black man’s game, and it will be forever.
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Michael Jordan is God disguised as a basketball player.
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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 learned what my weaknesses were and I went out the next day to turn those weaknesses intro strengths.
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The best players will play. That’s the way it will always be.
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Coaches can talk and talk and talk about something, but if you get it on tape and show it to them, it is so much more effective.
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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 hate to lose more than I like to win.
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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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My opinion about basketball, the way I was taught, was when you step on the court, you play to win.
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You’re all playin’ for second place.
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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 think you have to work very hard and dedicate yourself and have the respect of your teammates before you’re about to go out and just try to take a game over by yourself.
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