TOP 15 Most Famous Larry Bird Quotes :
1. “I really don’t like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.”
– Larry Bird
2. “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.”
– Larry Bird
3. “The more you win, the better you’re gonna get. It grows on itself.”
– Larry Bird
4. “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.”
– Larry Bird
5. “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.”
– Larry Bird
6. “It doesn’t matter who scores the points, it’s who can get the ball to the scorer.”
– Larry Bird
7. “I’ve got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.”
– Larry Bird
8. “I knew I was as good as anybody. That’s not really bragging; it’s just that I’d put the time in.”
– Larry Bird
9. “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.”
– Larry Bird
10. “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.”
– Larry Bird
11. “There are many times when you are better off practicing than playing; but most people just don’t understand that.”
– Larry Bird
12. “The best players will play. That’s the way it will always be.”
13. “I always know what’s happening on the court. I see a situation occur, and I respond.”
– Larry Bird
14. “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.”
– Larry Bird
15. “You never make any of the shots you never take. 87% of the ones you do take, you’ll miss too. I make 110% of my shots.”
– Larry Bird
Larry Bird Basketball Quotes :
1. “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.”
– Larry Bird
2. “When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.”
– Larry Bird
3. “There is nothing better than being out there when the game is on the line.”
– Larry Bird
4. “The key to being a good shooter is balance. Everything follows balance.”
– Larry Bird
5. “Basketball has been my life and I worked at it so hard because I enjoyed it so much.”
– Larry Bird
6. “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.”
– Larry Bird
7. “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.”
– Larry Bird
8. “It doesn’t matter who scores the points, it’s who can get the ball to the scorer.”
– Larry Bird
9. “I was always driven on the basketball court. I always wanted to win every game I played in, sometimes too much. When you’re out on the playground just playing, and you’re scraping, fighting, and do whatever you can to win the game. When it’s all over with, you’re friends, and I’d think, ‘Why did I get like that?’ That’s the way I’ve always been.”
– Larry Bird
10. “My opinion about basketball, the way I was taught, was when you step on the court, you play to win.”
– Larry Bird
Larry Bird Quotes on Leadership and Hard work :
1. “My coach told me, “Larry, no matter how much you work at it, there’s always someone out there who’s working just a little harder if you take 150 practice shots, he’s taking 200.” And that drove me.”
– Larry Bird
2. “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.”
– Larry Bird
3. “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.”
– Larry Bird
4. “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.”
– Larry Bird
5. “Once you are labeled ‘the best’ you want to stay up there, and you can’t do it by loafing around. If I don’t keep changing, I’m history.”
– Larry Bird
6. “I’m a firm believer in that you play the way you practice.”
– Larry Bird
7. “Push yourself again and again. Don’t give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.”
– Larry Bird
8. “When I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I got things exactly correct. My dream was to become a pro.”
– Larry Bird
9. “I learned what my weaknesses were and I went out the next day to turn those weaknesses intro strengths.”
– Larry Bird
10. “I’ve got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.”
– Larry Bird
11. “Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball. I didn’t play against the toughest competition in high school, but one reason I was able to do well in college was that I mastered the fundamentals. You’ve got to have them down before you can even think about playing.”
– Larry Bird
12. “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.”
– Larry Bird
Other Larry Bird Quotes :
1. “I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.”
– Larry Bird
2. “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.”
– Larry Bird
3. “It makes me sick when I see a guy just stare at a loose ball and watch it go out of bounds.”
– Larry Bird
4. “It makes me sick when I see a guy just stare at a loose ball and watch it go out of bounds.”
– Larry Bird
5. “It’s been a journey, the NBA. It’s taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.”
– Larry Bird
6. “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.”
– Larry Bird
7. “I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.”
– Larry Bird
8. “The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.”
– Larry Bird
9. “But it is a black man’s game, and it will be forever.”
– Larry Bird
10. “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.”
– Larry Bird
11. “I like being by myself.”
– Larry Bird
12. “I’m a loner.”
– Larry Bird
13. “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.”
– Larry Bird
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