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.
LARRY BIRDHe 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.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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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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I’m a firm believer in that you play the way you practice.
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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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You’ve got to have them down before you can even think about playing.
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As far as playing, I didn’t care who guarded me – red, yellow, black. I just didn’t want a white guy guarding me, because it’s disrespect to my game.
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Maybe it’s God disguised as Michael Jordan.
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I can see why fans don’t like to watch pro basketball. I don’t, either. It’s not exciting.
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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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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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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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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 was always making decisions and they were easier decisions because I had control of the game.
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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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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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