Larry Bird Quotes

• 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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• It doesn’t matter who scores the points, it’s who can get the ball to the scorer.

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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 end.

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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 guy guarding me, because it’s disrespect to my game.

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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 it as well as dish it out. That’s the only way you’re going to get respect from the players.

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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 you’re able to, you’d better go out there and do it. 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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• 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 external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.

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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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• When I was a kid, I never thought about anything. Never had to think about where I was going to school or what I was going to do. I just lived minute to minute.

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• 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 external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.

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• When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.

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

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

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• The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.

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

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• Once you are labeled ‘the best’ you want to stay up there, and you can’t do it by loafing around.

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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 you’re able to, you’d better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you’re not giving it all you’ve got.

  Larry Bird

• 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 it out. That’s the only way you’re going to get respect from the players.

  Larry Bird

• It doesn’t matter who scores the points, it’s who can get the ball to the scorer.

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Birth:	7th December, 1956
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Basketball Player, Coach

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