Larry Bird Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: coach
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 7, 1956

Topics

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When France fell in 1940, De Gaulle was a temporary brigadier general.

John Eisenhower

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I'm a sucker for a funny script. And then, as soon as I don't wanna be, one comes along and grabs me.

Meg Ryan

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I only understand friendship or scorched earth.

Roger Ailes

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The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony.

Ruth Bernhard

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The proposition that Muslims are welcome in Britain if, and only if, they stop behaving like Muslims is a doctrine which is incompatible with the principles that guide a free society.

Roy Hattersley

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You know, it takes a while to get used to - it's a whole group of people with all these ideas and after you sort of navigate your way through the first few episodes it becomes collaborative and creative.

Josh Duhamel

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I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.

Diane Lane

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Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue.

Clifford Geertz

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I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

Clint Eastwood

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I'm certainly not a baby kissing, hand slapping, rah rah good guy. I definitely think there's more of an edge to my character.

CM Punk

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I did some pastels and I did other pieces in which there was just basically one color per square, and then they would get bigger and I could get 2 or 3 colors into the square, and ultimately I just started making oil paintings.

Chuck Close

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The unknown has undone many a president, and no matter the popularity of an Oval Office occupant, any and all presidents are vulnerable. Of course, one thing that seems to set Obama part from his recent predecessors is his ability to keep an inner calm about tough issues.

Chuck Todd

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