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."

"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."

"I'm a firm believer you have to be patient in this league. The teams that are patient in trades (have more success). We'd like to get this done, but we've got a job to do and we have to make sure our fans are happy with what we get. They're our paying customers and we're trying to do our best for them."

"When I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I got things exactly correct. My dream was to become a pro."

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

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

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

"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."

"When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball,"