I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
LARRY BIRDCoaches 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.
More Larry Bird Quotes
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The more you win, the better you’re gonna get. It grows on itself.
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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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You’re all playin’ for second place.
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I really don’t like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.
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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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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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What’s better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
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I hate to lose more than I like to win.
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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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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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It doesn’t matter who scores the points, it’s who can get the ball to the scorer.
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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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Push yourself again and again. Don’t give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
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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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I just shoot until I feel good.
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