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Basketball Quotes by Larry Bird
- 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.
- 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 go to the line I'm thinking 'All net.' When I don't think that, I'm likely to miss.
- 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…
- 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…
- Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball. I didn't play against the toughest competition in high school, but one reason I was able…
- I like being by myself.
- I hate to lose more than I like to win.
- I'm a firm believer in that you play the way you practice.
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- My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character. — Charles Barkley
- The main thing to do is relax and let your talent do the work. — Charles Barkley
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