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Michael Jordan is God disguised as a basketball player.

Larry Bird

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Larry Bird
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: December 7
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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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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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What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
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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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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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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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The more you win, the better you're gonna get. It grows on itself.
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I wanted to compete at the highest level again - and that's the NBA.
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I hate to lose more than I like to win.
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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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Anytime you've got an opportunity to play for your country and win a gold medal, I think that takes it all. That's the greatest thing you could ever achieve in your sport. So, I have been very fortunate to play on great teams, but the gold medal was probably the best.
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You're all playin' for second place.
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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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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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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 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 don't think that once you get to one level, you can relax. You've got to keep pushing.
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The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.
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Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
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