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My opinion about basketball, the way I was taught, was when you step on the court, you play to win.

Larry Bird

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Larry Bird
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 7
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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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Eminem. My son was listening to that and I was like, “What is that junk?” Then I started listening and I thought, You know, that kid is pretty good. It's the storytelling.
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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.
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I'm a firm believer in that you play the way you practice.
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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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Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
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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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I don't think that once you get to one level, you can relax. You've got to keep pushing.
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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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Maybe it's God disguised as Michael Jordan.
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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 think you have to work very hard and dedicate yourself and have the respect of your teammates before you're about to go out and just try to take a game over by yourself.
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I hate to lose more than I like to win.
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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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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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A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
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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 always know what's happening on the court. I see a situation occur, and I respond.
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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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