"I mean, the greatest athletes in the world……" — Larry Bird
"I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American."
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51 Quotes by Larry Bird
Larry Bird has 51 quotes on this site.
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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…
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Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take…
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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the…
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Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as…
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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…
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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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Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
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I wasn't real quick, and I wasn't real strong. Some guys will just take off and it's like, whoa. So…
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The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.
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I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody -…
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The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they…
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When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.
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More African Quotes
This quote is filed under African Quotes,
one of 934 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa…
— Chinua Achebe
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To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can…
— David Attenborough
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Most African women are taught to endure abusive marriages. They say endurance means a good wife but most women endure…
— Joyce Banda
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The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look…
— Dave Barry
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Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.
— Xavier Becerra
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I'm the whitest guy you will ever meet. The first time I saw an African-American, my dad had to tell…
— Glenn Beck
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From being a little girl in the projects, going through all of the mess that I was going through, to…
— Mary J. Blige
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Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we…
— Bono
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I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I…
— Bono
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It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal…
— Bono
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The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you…
— Bono
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Because I worked as a newspaper reporter for about 14 years before attempting my first novel, I learned to write…
— Geraldine Brooks
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