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 Quote

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 Quote

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

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 Quote

I've been around a while. I kinda know these things.
- Larry Bird Quote

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

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 Quote

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.
- Larry Bird Quote

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.
- Larry Bird Quote

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

The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.
- Larry Bird Quote

The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.
- Larry Bird Quote

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 Quote

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

When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.
- Larry Bird Quote