Quotes from Larry Bird

I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

To me, a winner is someone who recognizes their God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses those skills to accomplish his goals. Even when I lost, I learned what my weaknesses were and I went out the next day to turn those weaknesses into strengths.

when you think you have done enough, do a little more, because someone out there is working harder than you.

I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

son. Kareem blew us off, but you were very nice." The son was a grown man, a successful attorney in Los Angeles. His father was the CEO of the company Magic was soliciting. "My son is 29 years old now," the man said, "and he still has that picture on his wall." As Magic walked out of the meeting with a new multimillion-dollar client in his portfolio, he thought to himself, "See, Kareem? It could have been you.

I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

My coach told me, "Larry, no matter how much you work at it, there's always someone out there who's working just a little harder - if you take 150 practice shots, he's taking 200." And that drove me.

When I was a player, I didn't expect my teammates to play the way I did. I did expect them to work hard every day and get better. And I never learned anything by losing.

I think you have to work very hard and dedicate yourself and have the respect of your teammates before you're about to go out and just try to take a game over by yourself.

I think a lot of blue collar people related to me because a lot of people work for their money.

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.

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

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

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

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.