Larry Bird Quotes - 9quotes.com

Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
Written by Larry Bird
I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.
Written by Larry Bird
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.
Written by Larry Bird
I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
Written by Larry Bird
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.
Written by Larry Bird
What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
Written by Larry Bird
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.
Written by Larry Bird
I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
Written by Larry Bird
But it is a black man's game, and it will be forever.
Written by Larry Bird
As far as playing, I didn't care who guarded me - red, yellow, black. I just didn't want a white guy guarding me, because it's disrespect to my game.
Written by Larry Bird
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.
Written by Larry Bird
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.
Written by Larry Bird
It doesn't matter who scores the points, it's who can get the ball to the scorer.
Written by Larry Bird
While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
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The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.
Written by Larry Bird
When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.
Written by Larry Bird
The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.
Written by Larry Bird
I've been around a while. I kinda know these things.
Written by Larry Bird
Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.
Written by Larry Bird
It's been a journey, the NBA. It's taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.
Written by Larry Bird
I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
Written by Larry Bird
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.
Written by Larry Bird
When I was a kid, I never thought about anything. Never had to think about where I was going to school or what I was going to do. I just lived minute to minute.
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I like being by myself.
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I'm a loner.
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I get homesick.
Written by Larry Bird
When I was a kid, like 14 or 15, I played with the waiters from the hotel, 'cause that was the best game. And these guys, they'd let me play. And they were black guys.
Written by Larry Bird

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