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Larry Bird
American
Coach
About the author
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,
American
Coach
#Will
#Day
#Future
#Trust
#Nature
#Facts
#Formula
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,
American
Coach
#Being
#Respect
#Leadership
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,
American
Coach
#Right
#Will
#Play
#Leadership
#Giving
Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.
Larry Bird,
American
Coach
#Want
Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
Larry Bird,
American
Coach
The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.
Larry Bird,
American
Coach
When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.
Larry Bird,
American
Coach
#Basketball
It doesn't matter who scores the points, it's who can get the ball to the scorer.
Larry Bird,
American
Coach
The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.
Larry Bird,
American
Coach
#Will
#Play
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.
Larry Bird,
American
Coach
But it is a black man's game, and it will be forever.
Larry Bird,
American
Coach
#Will
#Man
I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
Larry Bird,
American
Coach
#Time
#Work
#Will
#End
#Theory
I've been around a while. I kinda know these things.
Larry Bird,
American
Coach
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,
American
Coach
#Money
#Talking
I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
Larry Bird,
American
Coach
#World
#African
#Athletes
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,
American
Coach
#Wonder
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,
American
Coach
#Children
#First
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,
American
Coach
#God
#Goals
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,
American
Coach
#Want
#Care
What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
Larry Bird,
American
Coach
#Will
#World
#Dogs