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.
LARRY BIRDBasketball has been my life and I worked at it so hard because I enjoyed it so much.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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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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What’s better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
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Push yourself again and again. Don’t give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
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I hate to lose more than I like to win.
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In the closing seconds of every game, I want the ball in my hands for the last shot – not in anybody else’s, not in anybody else’s in the world.
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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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I think that takes it all. That’s the greatest thing you could ever achieve in your sport. So, I have been very fortunate to play on great teams, but the gold medal was probably the best.
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The best players will play. That’s the way it will always be.
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When I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I got things exactly correct. My dream was to become a pro.
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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 just shoot until I feel good.
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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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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use.
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The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.
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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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