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Larry Bird

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Larry Bird
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: December 7
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Maybe it's God disguised as Michael Jordan.
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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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Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
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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're all playin' for second place.
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Who in their right mind wouldn't listen to what Larry Bird tells them? He knows what it takes to be a successful player, and he's letting us do the things to have the success.
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My opinion about basketball, the way I was taught, was when you step on the court, you play to win.
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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 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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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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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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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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I wanted to compete at the highest level again - and that's the NBA.
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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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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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What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
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When I go to the line I'm thinking 'All net.' When I don't think that, I'm likely to miss.
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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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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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