Quotes from Larry Bird


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


I've been around a while. I kinda know these things.


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.



I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.


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.


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


The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.


I like being by myself.


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.


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


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.


Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.


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.


What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?


But it is a black man's game, and it will be forever.


When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.


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.


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