Larry Bird
Larry Bird
Larry Joe Birdis an American retired professional basketball player who played for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association. Since retiring as a player, he has been a mainstay in the Indiana Pacers organization, currently serving as team president. Drafted into the NBA sixth overall by the Boston Celtics in 1978, Bird started at small forward and power forward for thirteen seasons, spearheading one of the NBA's most formidable frontcourts that included center Robert Parish and forward Kevin McHale...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth7 December 1956
CityWest Baden Springs, IN
CountryUnited States of America
Basketball has been my life and I worked at it so hard because I enjoyed it so much.
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.
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.
I think a lot of blue collar people related to me because a lot of people work for their money.
I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
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.
Strength is not nearly as important as desire. I don't think you can teach anyone desire. I think it's a gift. I don't know why I have it, but I do.
The best basketball announcer is one who allows you to close your eyes.
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.
What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
But it is a black man's game, and it will be forever.
I like being by myself.
I'm a firm believer in that you play the way you practice.
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.