Larry Bird Quotes

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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…
• 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…
• I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
• Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better…
• 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…
• It doesn't matter who scores the points, it's who can get the ball to the scorer.
• Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
• 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…
• The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.
• I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody - somewhere - was practicing more…
• 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…
• When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.
• Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.
• I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
• It's been a journey, the NBA. It's taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.
• The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.
• I've been around a while. I kinda know these things.
• 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…
• While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer…
• 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…

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