Larry Bird Quotes - Page 2

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.

Basketball has been my life and I worked at it so hard because I enjoyed it so much.

Coaches can talk and talk and talk about something, but if you get it on tape and show it to them, it is so much more effective.

When I go to the line I'm thinking 'All net.' When I don't think that, I'm likely to miss.

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.

The more you win, the better you're gonna get. It grows on itself.

I knew I was as good as anybody. That's not really bragging; it's just that I'd put the time in.

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.

Basketball was always a game to me. One of the greatest things in life for me was to be able to play what I loved dearly and get paid for it. So it was always a game to me and that's how I perceived everything.

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.

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

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 really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

I like being by myself.

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

When I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I got things exactly correct. My dream was to become a pro.

In the closing seconds of every game, I want the ball in my hands for the last shot - not in anybody else's, not in anybody else's in the world.

Maybe it's God disguised as Michael Jordan.

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

The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.

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

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.

When I was a player, I didn't expect my teammates to play the way I did. I did expect them to work hard every day and get better. And I never learned anything by losing.

I've always been interested in jobs in the NBA. But I've been in this for 20 years and it might be time to do something else.

I have always been confident in my skills and once the game got going I knew I was probably the best player on the floor most of the time whether it was junior high, high school or college. I knew I had control of the game.