Quotes by Larry Bird

About Larry Bird:

Larry Joe Bird is an American retired professional basketball player who played for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA). 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. Bird was a 12-time NBA All-Star and was named the league's Most Valuable Player (MVP) three consecutive times (1984–1986). He played his entire professional career for Boston, winning three NBA championships and two NBA Finals MVP awards.
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The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.

Larry Bird

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

Larry Bird

Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.

Larry Bird

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

This is a silly place. Half the world has no clean water. The other half has so much that they pooh in it.

Larry Bird

Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.

Larry Bird

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

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

What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?

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

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

Larry Bird

But it is a black man's game, and it will be forever.

Larry Bird

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

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

Larry Bird

When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.

Larry Bird

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

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

When I was a kid, I never thought about anything. Never had to think about where I was going to school or what I was going to do. I just lived minute to minute.

Larry Bird

I like being by myself.

Larry Bird

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

Author Bio

  • NameLarry Bird
  • Descriptionbasketball player and coach
  • BornDecember 7, 1956
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSportsperson; Basketball Player; Basketball Coach
  • AwardsNBA Most Valuable Player Award