160 Quotes by Larry Bird

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

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.

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.

My name's been on this check for a week now.

The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.

You know when I played, you had me and Kevin (McHale) and some others throughout the league. I think it's good for a fan base because as we all know the majority of the fans are white America. And if you just had a couple of white guys in there, you might get them a little excited.

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

I knew I was as good as anybody. That's not really bragging; it's just that I'd put the time in.

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