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Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
Larry Bird
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Larry Bird
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: December 7
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The more you win, the better you're gonna get. It grows on itself.
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It's been a journey, the NBA. It's taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.
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My goal was just to try and be the best player on my high school team, and look where I am now. And that was still my goal as a young kid, just to try and be a little better than my brother was.
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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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It makes me sick when I see a guy just stare at a loose ball and watch it go out of bounds.
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Strength is not nearly as important as desire. I don't think you can teach anyone desire. I think it's a gift. I don't know why I have it, but I do.
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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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I knew I was as good as anybody. That's not really bragging it's just that I'd put the time in.
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The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.
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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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Guys like Larry Bird -- he played so hard, he wants everybody else to play hard. That's not unreasonable. Any coach would want that and demand that.
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You can make all the excuses you want, but if you're not mentally tough and you're not prepared to play every night, you're not going to win.
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