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I'm a firm believer in that you play the way you practice.

Larry Bird

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Larry Bird
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: December 7
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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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Michael Jordan is God disguised as a basketball player.
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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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The more you win, the better you're gonna get. It grows on itself.
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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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Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
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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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I think a lot of blue collar people related to me because a lot of people work for their money.
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You're all playin' for second place.
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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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What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
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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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Don't let winning make you soft. Don't let losing make you quit. Don't let your teammates down in any situation.
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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 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.
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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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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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Maybe it's God disguised as Michael Jordan.
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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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