Larry Bird Quotes

I like being by myself.

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.

I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.

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 mind and my fundamentals.

I’m a loner.

I’ve been around a while. I kinda know these things.

It’s been a journey, the NBA. It’s taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.

I like being by myself.

I like being by myself.

I get homesick.

The best players will play. That’s the way it will always be.

Push yourself again and again. Don’t give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.

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.

I don’t know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody – somewhere – was practicing more than me.

But it is a black man’s game, and it will be forever.

When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.

What’s better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?

The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.

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.