My goal was just to try and be the best player on my high school team, and look where I am now. And that was still my goal as a young kid, just to try and be a little better than my brother was.
LARRY BIRDEminem. My son was listening to that and I was like, “What is that junk?” Then I started listening and I thought, You know, that kid is pretty good. It’s the storytelling.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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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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Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you’re not giving it all you’ve got.
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My coach told me, “Larry, no matter how much you work at it, there’s always someone out there who’s working just a little harder – if you take 150 practice shots, he’s taking 200.” And that drove me.
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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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You’re all playin’ for second place.
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Maybe it’s God disguised as Michael Jordan.
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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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A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
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When I go to the line I’m thinking ‘All net.’ When I don’t think that, I’m likely to miss.
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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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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 has been my life and I worked at it so hard because I enjoyed it so much.
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But it is a black man’s game, and it will be forever.
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The best basketball announcer is one who allows you to close your eyes.
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