Once you are labeled ‘the best’ you want to stay up there, and you can’t do it by loafing around.
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’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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Eminem. 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.
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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use.
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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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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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The best players will play. That’s the way it will always be.
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I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
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I’m a firm believer in that you play the way you practice.
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I’ve been around a while. I kinda know these things.
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Anytime you’ve got an opportunity to play for your country and win a gold medal,
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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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It doesn’t matter who scores the points, it’s who can get the ball to the scorer.
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Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It’s being able to take it as well as dish it out. That’s the only way you’re going to get respect from the players.
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But it is a black man’s game, and it will be forever.
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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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I wasn’t real quick, and I wasn’t real strong. Some guys will just take off and it’s like, whoa. So I beat them with my mind and my fundamentals.
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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 had control of the ball. As a coach you sort of put the ball in other player’s hands and let them make decisions for you. But I still get a kick out of winning basketball games and that’s what I’m in this for.
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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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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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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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Maybe it’s God disguised as Michael Jordan.
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Don’t let winning make you soft. Don’t let losing make you quit. Don’t let your teammates down in any situation.
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When I was a player, I didn’t expect my teammates to play the way I did. I did expect them to work hard every day and get better. And I never learned anything by losing.
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My name’s been on this check for a week now.
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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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