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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.

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Larry Bird
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 7
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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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Maybe it's God disguised as Michael Jordan.
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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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You know when I played, you had me and Kevin (McHale) and some others throughout the league. I think it's good for a fan base because as we all know the majority of the fans are white America. And if you just had a couple of white guys in there, you might get them a little excited.
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I learned what my weaknesses were and I went out the next day to turn those weaknesses intro strengths.
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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.
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The more you win, the better you're gonna get. It grows on itself.
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I hate to lose more than I like to win.
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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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I wanted to compete at the highest level again - and that's the NBA.
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