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