Famous Quotes & Sayings

Larry Bird

I can see why fans don't like to watch pro basketball. I don't, either. It's not exciting.

Larry Bird

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

Larry Bird

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

Larry Bird

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

Larry Bird

I was always making decisions and they were easier decisions because I had control of the game, I had control of the ball. As a coach you sort of put the ball in other player's hands and let them make decisions for you. But I still get a kick out of winning basketball games and that's what I'm in this for.

Larry Bird

I always know what's happening on the court. I see a situation occur, and I respond.

Larry Bird

You can make all the excuses you want, but if you're not mentally tough and you're not prepared to play every night, you're not going to win.

Larry Bird

My goal was just to try and be the best player on my high school team, and look where I am now. And that was still my goal as a young kid, just to try and be a little better than my brother was.

Larry Bird

The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.

Larry Bird

My name's been on this check for a week now.

Larry Bird

You know when I played, you had me and Kevin (McHale) and some others throughout the league. I think it's good for a fan base because as we all know the majority of the fans are white America. And if you just had a couple of white guys in there, you might get them a little excited.

Larry Bird

My opinion about basketball, the way I was taught, was when you step on the court, you play to win.

Larry Bird

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

When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.

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

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

Larry Bird

It doesn't matter who scores the points, it's who can get the ball to the scorer.

Larry Bird

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

I hate to lose more than I like to win.

Larry Bird

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

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

Michael Jordan is God disguised as a basketball player.

Larry Bird

There are many times when you are better off practicing than playing; but most people just don't understand that

Terry Stotts

The fundamentals of the game are the same wherever you go: pass, dribble, shoot, defend, rebound, screen, play hard and together

Terry Fox

The night before my amputation, my former basketball coach brought me a magazine with an article on an amputee who ran in the New York Marathon. It was then I decided to meet this new challenge head on and not only overcome my disability, but conquer it in such a way that I could never look back and say it disabled me.

Terry Crews

I was a sports nut. I stayed after school probably three hours every day - from fall, to winter, to spring. I went from football to basketball to track and it started all over again. I loved all of it. I just loved being an athlete and all that it entailed. It really accounts for who I am.

Terry Bowden

When it comes to celebrating, act like you've been there before.

Terry Bradshaw

I was a kid who loved to play games. Any kind of game, any kind of ball. Give me a baseball, give me a basketball, give me something I can bounce and throw.

Taylor Phinney

I'm not super social, don't really go to parties, or basketball games, or football games very often, the big social occasions.

Seimone Augustus

That's kind of what I want to do-set my own trend in the basketball world.

Seimone Augustus

I know there are expectations, but I don't let them affect mt game. I just play basketball.

Seimone Augustus

My dad taught me that you have to work hard for anything you want in life, and I wanted to be good at playing basketball.

Shimon Peres

I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy.