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You're all playin' for second place.

Larry Bird

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Larry Bird
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 7
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I'm a firm believer in that you play the way you practice.
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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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The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.
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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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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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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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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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Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball. I didn't play against the toughest competition in high school, but one reason I was able to do well in college was that I mastered the fundamentals. You've got to have them down before you can even think about playing.
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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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Maybe it's God disguised as Michael Jordan.
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What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
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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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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 hate to lose more than I like to win.
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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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