Larry Bird

Coach

1956-12-07

Quotes by Larry Bird

• Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.

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• 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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• It's been a journey, the NBA. It's taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.

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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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• 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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• I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.

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• 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.

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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've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

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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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• 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.

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