I always know what’s happening on the court. I see a situation occur, and I respond.
LARRY BIRDI 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.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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Michael Jordan is God disguised as a basketball player.
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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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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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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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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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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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Push yourself again and again. Don’t give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
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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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But it is a black man’s game, and it will be forever.
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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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I’m a firm believer in that you play the way you practice.
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Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball.
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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 go to the line I’m thinking ‘All net.’ When I don’t think that, I’m likely to miss.
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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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