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Larry Bird

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

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

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Donna Grant

"I have no desire to coach basketball."

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Donna Grant

"Yeah, I like cars and basketball. But you know what I like more? Bananas."

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Donna Grant

"The only reason I went to college was to play basketball. I injured my knee and couldn't play."

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Donna Grant

"Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school."

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Donna Grant

"Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try."

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Donna Grant

"That's what I do now: I lead and I teach. If we win basketball games from doing that, then that's great, but I lead and teach. Those are the two things I concentrate on."

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Donna Grant

"You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os."

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Donna Grant

"I played varsity on all of them for four years. I'm 5'9 and that's not that tall for a center so I was a forward. I loved playing volleyball and basketball and track I was good at, but it stressed me out."

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Donna Grant

"It's not to hurt anyone, but basketball can be rough."

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Donna Grant

"Nobody cared about swimming. You could draw a crowd for basketball."

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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."

Wonder

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

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

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Larry Bird
"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."

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Larry Bird
"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."

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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."

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

Want

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

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

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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."

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